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ˈhan·som cab [ˈhæn(t)səm-] N hist

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He has favoured replacing the hansom cabs with old-timey electric cars.
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Not far from him, the driver of a hansom cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse.
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It included a safety device found in hansom cabs to stop passengers from falling out of the vehicle in the event of a sudden halt.
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Maybe our collective imagination is recycling images from all those films, with hansom cabs rattling over the cobbles in black and white.
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Oddly enough, though the ubiquitous hansom cabs have been replaced by taxis and the telegram by text message, nothing about the transition feels jarring.
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The first hackney-carriage licences date from 1662, and applied literally to horse-drawn carriages, later modernised as hansom cabs (1834), that operated as vehicles for hire.
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Bowler hats, hansom cabs and gaslight properly.
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The images -- like the stories -- evoke a vast, polluted metropolis of foggy streets and horse-drawn hansom cabs, bustling crowds and screams in the night.
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They take in all the local sights from the seats of hansom cabs.
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