Definition of "hansoms" [hansoms]

• Plural form of hansom. (noun)

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• "The young man looked out of the window a moment, at the called hansoms that lurched up, at the smooth broughams that rolled away."
• "We'll just take one of these two-wheeled sardine tins that you people call hansoms, and get round to the hotel as quick as we can."
• "To vary Carlyle's phrase, you can pay for dinners, you can call hansoms, you can take stalls; in fact, you are a prince -- to the extent of a sovereign."