hansom

See also: Hansom

English

Alternative forms

• hanson

Noun

hansom (plural hansoms)

1. (historical) A Hansom cab; a carriage
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

     I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house.

   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, “6/4”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps‎^[1]:

     The ghost of Selby stirred in him. His thoughts slipped back to the day when he had stolen from his well-appointed office to a waiting hansom—there had still been a good many hansoms in those days—and driven quickly to the docks.

Translations

a Hansom cab

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一马二轮之有盖双座小马车

• Dutch: tweewielig rijtuig met koetsier achterop
• Hungarian: konflis (hu)

Anagrams

• Hosman, Mahons, Homans, Hamson, hamons, Ohmans, Mohans, man hos, Monash