horseless carriages
Motor vehicles, pre-Ford
Horseless carriages is an old-fashioned term for automobiles, used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when cars were novel enough to require explanation by reference to horse-drawn vehicles.
The phrase now sounds quaint or deliberately archaic: My grandfather called them horseless carriages until the day he died.
- omnibusVolume of gathered writings
- automobileSelf-propelled passenger conveyance
- motorcarSelf-propelled road vehicle
- motor carSelf-propelled passenger vehicle
- autoSelf, in compounds
vehicle · Model T · coachbuilding · antique · vintage · predecessor · brass · industrialization · mass production · buggy whip · Henry Ford · prototype · assembly line · tire · wood · motive · steam-powered vehicles · classic automobiles
horseless carriageshorse-drawn carriages
Vehicles pulled by equines
horse-drawn vehicles · horse and buggy · buggies · stagecoaches · carriages
horseless carriageshorse and buggy
Animal-drawn wheeled vehicle
chariot · sedan chair · rickshaw · palanquin
horse, horses, horsed, horsing, horseless, carriage, carriages, carries, carried