Definition of "hansom-cab" [hansom-cab]

• Same as hansom. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But it was also a place where a grandmother from Yonkers could take her granddaughter for tea in the Palm Court, where a couple of hansom-cab drivers could come in for a beer at the Oak Bar after a day of driving tourists through Central Park."
• "Men drove cars now to the same tick as the old horse-bus and hansom-cab drivers had driven their slipping, sliding, clattering gees."
• "With that he fell from the balcony, bouncing on the stones below like a great ball of india-rubber, and went bounding off towards the corner of the Alhambra, where he hailed a hansom-cab and sprang inside it."