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Hansom cab   /hˈænsəm kæb/   Listen
noun
Cab  n.  
1.
A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." Note: A cab may have two seats at right angles to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front.
Hansom cab. See Hansom.
2.
The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.


Hansom cab, Hansom  n.  A light, low, two-wheeled covered carriage with the driver's seat elevated behind, the reins being passed over the top. "He hailed a cruising hansom... " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair."





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"Hansom cab" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not hear, as I heard, that piercing wail, or see the shaking figure that climbed on my rear step at Twenty-fourth Street and rode twenty blocks northward. A man once wrote an Australian story called 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.' My life had not one mystery but a score of mysteries. You think you know something of Fifth Avenue. What do you know of the killing the Girl in Green, or of Colt and the William Street printer, the Suicides of No. ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... woman said nothing, and the dark gentleman walked into the street, where a hansom cab waited for him. "Covent Garden," he cried to ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
... could tell afterward how long the talk continued. A louder noise outside drew them all to the front porch. In front of the house was a hansom cab drawn by a disgusted-looking horse. He looked and acted like one who had been compelled against his will to ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... Oh, Mr. Hillyard, there was a time when she really dressed—dressed, you understand. My word, she was thorough then, too. I remember coming out of the Albert Hall on a Melba afternoon, when we could get nothing but a hansom cab, and a policeman actually had to lift her up into it like a big baby because her skirt was so tight. And ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
... his right. Pushed over into the Fifth Avenue traffic by the regulations, he contemplated returning to the Broadway stream as soon as possible, and was crawling along with his clutch barely rubbing, when a hansom cab, containing a beautiful but pale young woman, slowly passed. The occupant abruptly rose from her seat and scrutinized the car in ...
— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele


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