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hansomhan‧som /ˈhænsəm/ (also ˈhansom ˌcab) noun [countable] hansom cabOrigin: 1800-1900 Joseph Hansom (1803-82), British architect who designed it - As he spoke, the hansom turned into the drive before the Foreign Office.
- Bid Mrs Hudson to have a hansom flagged down and waiting for us.
- I caught up with him on Exhibition Road, where he had run into the street and flagged down a hansom.
- In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
- The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.
- Then, every evening - oh, the danger of it - home by hansom.
- Yes ... I remember a hansom pipped me to a good prospect, in Threadneedle Street.
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