Search for crossword answers and clues
Risk briefly carrying horse in old vehicle
Answer for the clue "Risk briefly carrying horse in old vehicle ", 9 letters:
charabanc
Alternative clues for the word charabanc
Word definitions for charabanc in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A horse-drawn, and then later, motorized omnibus with open sides, and often, no roof.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort, or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs. ▪ Most of the fathers chickened out, piling into the charabanc which held adults and adolescents. ▪ The ...
Usage examples of charabanc.
On such nights, the dingy dwellings of Spittalfields and Whitechapel still seem to belong to the Huguenot silk-weavers, the prim backstreets of Kensington appear eternally Edwardian, and the houses of the Chelsea embankment, primped with gothic trimmings and standing in Sunday finery like a charabanc of ruddy-faced matrons, remain the province of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Special quick excursion trains and upholstered charabancs had been provided for the comfort of our country cousins of whom there were large contingents.