hippomobilen.adj.

1899 Motor-car Jrnl. 17 Mar. 17/2 In overtaking a horse-drawn vehicle it is best to sound the horn when some distance behind, and..to avoid its use again until past the ‘hippomobile’.

1904 Outing June 270/1 By train, by tram, by hippomobile and motor-car, Paris has journeyed Poissy-ward.

1911 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 28/2 A very excellent line of harness highly recommended to those who still rely on hippomobiles.

1940 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 July 363/2 If you abolished money, or the state, or logarithms, or all forms of transport except the hippomobile, you could still have man.

1960 Vintage Cars 26 When hippomobiles went out and automobiles came in, the name [sc. Phaëton] lingered on until some vandal coined the word ‘tourer’.

1992 Independent 11 July 46/4 Later we hired a hippomobile, a horse-drawn carriage with green wheels and florid canopy, to tour the oasis.

1899 Motor-car Jrnl. 7 Apr. 71/1 For high-speed motor-car races... The idea is to utilise..the Longchamps race-course, hitherto sacred to the horse and occasionally to a hippomobile vehicle.

1925 Boston Daily Globe 20 Dec. 55/1 (caption) Tremont Street..in the days of hippomobile transportation.

1943 J. Lodwick Running to Paradise xvii. 167 The French Army, and particularly its artillery, was almost entirely hippomobile.

1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 26 Even in 1899 this contrivance had an air of hippomobile antiquity.