Definition of "penny-farthing" []

• An early bicycle having a large front wheel and much smaller rear one. (noun)

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• "I won't analyse it as it bores me enough but I calculate it's perhaps just about on a penny-farthing."
• " At just that moment, a man wearing a three-piece-suit and a beret pedals by on a penny-farthing."
• "Deville, this month-old East Village restaurant underwent a three-month renovation to give it a rustic feel, harking back to the late Victorian era when the penny-farthing bicycle was popular."