HANSOM


Meaning of HANSOM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cab

The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.

In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As he spoke, the hansom turned into the drive before the Foreign Office.

Bid Mrs Hudson to have a hansom flagged down and waiting for us.

I caught up with him on Exhibition Road, where he had run into the street and flagged down a hansom .

In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.

The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.

Then, every evening - oh, the danger of it - home by hansom .

Yes ... I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect, in Threadneedle Street.

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