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hansom cab| Two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage in which the driver's seat is outside behind the body, the reins passing over the hooded top. Originally called the ‘patent safety cab’, it was designed in 1834 by Joseph Hansom (1803–1882), who received £300 for his invention. |
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| Observing that they passed no other hansom cab, but only vans and waggons, and that not one of the thousand men and women she saw was either a gentleman or a lady, Mrs. An instant afterwards he gave a little cry of satisfaction, and, following the direction of his eager eyes, I saw that a hansom cab with a man inside which had halted on the other side of the street was now proceeding slowly onward again. Later, on an anniversary, she was taken by her mother through the fog in a hansom cab, and given a large bunch of bright, sweet-scented flowers to lay upon his tomb. |
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