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Irish cars

Irish cars is the plural of Irish car.

Meaning of Irish car

Noun

Irish car (plural Irish cars)

  1. (archaic, historical) A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.
    • Then we went, my Lord on horseback and the rest of us partly walking, partly on a most social machine, the Irish car, running upon two low, broad wheels, covered by a spacious platform rendered comfortable by carpeting fixed over it, and on the three sides not next the horse, boards to support the...1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 188

Questions about Irish cars

What is Irish cars the plural of?
Irish cars is the plural of Irish car.

Words near Irish cars in the dictionary

  1. Irish bull
  2. Irish bulls
  3. Irish car
  4. Irish car bomb
  5. Irish car bombs
  6. Irish cars
  7. Irish clubhouse
  8. Irish clubhouses
  9. Irish cockney
  10. Irish cockneys
  11. Irish coffee

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