hansom

See also Hansom

English

Noun

Wikipedia hansom (plural hansoms)

1. A Hansom cab; a carriage
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, The Tremarn Case^[1]:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 6/4, Death Walks in Eastrepps^[2]:

     The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.

   I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.

Translations

a Hansom cab

• Hungarian: konflis (hu)