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hippomobile (Disused.)|ˈhɪpəʊməʊbiːl|
[f. hippo- + mobile a.]
A word used in the early days of motor vehicles for a horse-drawn vehicle. So hippoˈmobilism, the use of a hippomobile.
1904in A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist xiii. 275 A hippo-mobile was despatched. 1904Westm. Gaz. 15 Nov. 4/2 A motor-van..would certainly do the journey more quickly..and presumably such a vehicle will supersede the hippomobile in time. 1905Ibid. 20 June 4/2 How much longer, motorists may be tempted to ask, is such a dangerous mode of locomotion as the hippomobile to be tolerated? 1908Daily Chron. 16 Jan. 4/4 Hippomobilism was out of the question. 1963Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 26 Even in 1899 this contrivance had an air of hippomobile antiquity. |