motorcar

At the beginning of the nine year reign of Edward VII, the motorcar was a status symbol that only the very rich could afford to purchase and maintain, as the horse, generally cheaper and familiar to the population, continued its domination of everyday travel and transport.

2008 March | Edwardian Promenade 2008

At the beginning of the nine year reign of Edward VII, the motorcar was a status symbol that only the very rich could afford to purchase and maintain, as the horse, generally cheaper and familiar to the population, continued its domination of everyday travel and transport.

The Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade 2008

Tibetans called the telegraph tar from the Hindi for wire, a motorcar was a mota or gari, from gaadi, flashlights were known as bijili after the Hindi word for electricity, and the postal service was called dak.

languagehat.com: HYBRID TIBETAN. 2005

Her description of the film actually comes out of Weinberg, complete with the mistake of identifying the lead as an "eighteenth-century czarina" and the same false claims for the anachronisms of bobbed hair and a "motorcar" (Weinberg's word as well as Koenig's, p. 76 in Weinberg).

That Uncertain Feeling Paul, William 1984

I didn't for a second question "motorcar" as a perfectly legitimate word for "car," but she's the only person I've ever heard actually refer to an automobile as a motorcar.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

Some may think that "motorcar" is common in England, but I've never heard it over there.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

Once the novice acquainted themselves with the layout of the motorcar, they were ready to drive:

To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade 2009

She wants him to pilot the journey, hunched forward in the motorcar.

Neuschwanstein Cooper Renner 2011

"If we didn't get more tonnes into the system, your next motorcar is going to cost more because the aluminum cost is going to be higher."

Glencore CEO Defends Stock Dana Cimilluca 2011

Many newspapers, periodicals and fiction of the day detailed the accidents and almost-accidents which befell early motorists, such as when Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, upon taking her new motorcar for a trial run, accidentally drove backwards and knocked over a passing man, and then proceeded to drive over him twice more before he got away and she got out of the car.

To Drive a Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade 2009