horseless carriage

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   an early term for an automobile

   “when automobiles first replaced horse-drawn carriages they were called horseless carriages”

   Broadercar

Questions about horseless carriage

What does horseless carriage mean?

horseless carriage means "an early term for an automobile".

Is horseless carriage a common word?

horseless carriage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.