hansom

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 143 words | Copyright

hansom short for hansom cab. XIX. f. name of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803–82). architect. who registered a Patent Safety Cab in 1834.

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