Synonyms:
hansom, hansom_cab
Meaning: a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers
Usage examples
"Oh, let us have a hansom!
"Four-wheeler or hansom, ma'am?" said a porter to Mrs. Ashe.
Tilliard fled into a hansom, cursing himself for having tried to do the thing cheaply.
"Show Miss Marston out," said his master; "and tell my coachman to bring the hansom round directly."
We went four in the hansom which had been waiting in the street to Mrs Henderson's in Paradise Place,--the Inspector and we three.
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.
So a hansom cab was called, the two ladies got in, Amy cuddled down between them, the folding-doors were shut over their knees like a lap-robe, and away they drove up the solidly paved streets to the hotel where they were to pass the night.
I had a lovely harangue all pat in my head, in much the same strain, on the infinite possibilities of entertaining angels unawares, in cabs, on the Underground, in the aerated bread shops; but Elsie's widening eyes of horror pulled me up short like a hansom in Piccadilly when the inexorable upturned hand of the policeman checks it.