"horseless carriage" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.",
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    {
      "form": "horseless carriages",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1896 August, Popular Science Monthly, volume 49:",
          "text": "The movement for the introduction of horseless carriages is represented by two periodicals, the Horseless Age and the Motocycle, in the United States; the Autocar, in London; and La Locomotion Automobile and La France Automobile, in France.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter VIII, in The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Fanny Minafer had begun to talk to Lucy. \"Your father wanted to prove that his horseless carriage would run, even in the snow,\" she said. \"It really does, too.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Brass Era car"
        }
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "horseless carriage thinking",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:",
          "text": "The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms."
      ],
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        "(figurative) Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms."
      ],
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      ]
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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "London Steam Carriage"
  ],
  "word": "horseless carriage"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "horseless carriages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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          "ref": "1896 August, Popular Science Monthly, volume 49:",
          "text": "The movement for the introduction of horseless carriages is represented by two periodicals, the Horseless Age and the Motocycle, in the United States; the Autocar, in London; and La Locomotion Automobile and La France Automobile, in France.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter VIII, in The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Fanny Minafer had begun to talk to Lucy. \"Your father wanted to prove that his horseless carriage would run, even in the snow,\" she said. \"It really does, too.\"",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "(historical) An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I."
      ],
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          "word": "Brass Era car"
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        {
          "text": "horseless carriage thinking",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:",
          "text": "The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.",
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        }
      ],
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        "(figurative) Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms."
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    "London Steam Carriage"
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  "word": "horseless carriage"
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