"Irish car" meaning in All languages combined

See Irish car on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Irish cars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Irish car (plural Irish cars)
  1. (now rare, historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches. Tags: archaic, historical
    Sense id: en-Irish_car-en-noun-nrKPDGH2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 188",
          "text": "Then we went, my Lord on horseback and the rest of us partly walking, partly on a most social machine, the Irish car, running upon two low, broad wheels, covered by a spacious platform rendered comfortable by carpeting fixed over it, and on the three sides not next the horse, boards to support the feet on."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Leonard Woolf, letter, 25 November",
          "text": "I got into an absurd Irish car […] & drove straight off."
        }
      ],
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        "A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches."
      ],
      "id": "en-Irish_car-en-noun-nrKPDGH2",
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      ],
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        "archaic",
        "historical"
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