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Motorcar   /mˈoʊtərkˌɑr/   Listen
noun
Motorcar, Motor car  n.  
1.
An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers and propelled by an internal combustion engine.
Synonyms: car, auto, automobile, machine.
2.
(Elec. Railroads) Any car containing motors for propulsion. (U. S.)





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"Motorcar" Quotes from Famous Books



... purpose, were very ugly. Today the motor-car, evolved out of structural needs, a thing complete in and for itself, has in its lines and coherence of composition certain elements of beauty. In his "Song of Speed," Henley has demonstrated that the motorcar, mechanical, modern, useful, may even be material for poetry. That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness ...
— The Gate of Appreciation - Studies in the Relation of Art to Life • Carleton Noyes
... girl was required to write an essay of two hundred and fifty words about a motorcar. She ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... a sort of wonder. The person who had spoken to her was young and beautifully dressed in furs that covered her to her feet. She had gotten down from a motorcar that stood beside the curb—one of those modern ...
— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post
... Lord Dreever that her ladyship had come to meet the train in the motorcar, and was now waiting in ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... few opportunities to observe, although a mongoose at Raisina gave me a very amusing ten minutes. At Raisina, also, the jackals came close to the house at night; and on an early morning ride in a motorcar to Agra we passed a wolf, and a little later were most impudently raced and outdistanced by a blackbuck, who, instead of bolting into security at the sight or sound of man, ran, or rather, advanced—for his progress is mysterious and magical—beside us for ...
— Roving East and Roving West • E.V. Lucas


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