horse-and-buggy
Pre-automobile conveyance
Horse-and-buggy refers to the era before automobiles, when horses pulled carriages for everyday transportation.
The phrase now suggests something outdated or behind the times: horse-and-buggy thinking, horse-and-buggy technology.
It implies not just old but obsolete—belonging to a world that has moved on.
Wheeled passenger vehicle
- wagonWheeled hauling vehicle
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
- reinsBit-attached steering straps
- hitching postPole for securing mounts
livery stable · blacksmith · farrier · tack · bridle · surrey · coach · phaeton
No longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
- anachronisticWrongly placed in time
bygone · archaic · primitive · backward · nostalgic · relic · traditional · rustic
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- cobblestoneRiver-smoothed paving stone
- frontierEdge of settlement
colonial · antebellum · old west · prairie · homestead · general store · telegraph · oil lamp
carriage
Wheeled passenger vehicle
hitching post · livery stable · blacksmith · farrier · tack · bridle · surrey · coach · phaeton · buckboard
outdated
No longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- quaintAttractively unfamiliar, outdated
anachronistic · bygone · archaic · primitive · backward · nostalgic · relic · traditional · rustic · slow-paced
Victorian
Of a prim era
- 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- cobblestoneRiver-smoothed paving stone
frontier · colonial · antebellum · old west · prairie · homestead · general store · telegraph · oil lamp · dirt road
horse-and-buggycutting-edge
At innovation's forefront
state-of-the-art · modern · high-tech · space-age · futuristic
horse-and-buggyprogressive
Favoring reform and innovation
forward-thinking · innovative · cutting-edge · avant-garde · visionary
horse, buggy, horses, horsed, horsing, horsy, horsey, horseman, horsemanship