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Noun: horseless carriage
  1. An early term for an automobile
    "when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages"

Derived forms: horseless carriages

Type of: auto [informal], autocar [archaic], automobile [N. Amer], car, motor [Brit, informal], motorcar, wheel [informal], whip [US, informal]

Encyclopedia: Horseless carriage