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station-wagon
Also station wagon, (-)waggon.
†1. U.S.
a. A type of horse-drawn covered carriage, used for conveying passengers. Obs.
1894Hub News 23 May 77/1 Business has been fairly good this spring... Traps are in most demand, next come buggies, cutunders, and business rockaways or station wagons. 1901Varnish 15 July 253/1 Then we would all know the difference between a cabriolet and an extension⁓top phaeton; a station wagon and a rockaway.
b. A similar type of motorized carriage.
1904Motor World 21 Jan. 680/2 The station wagon is a new model exhibited the first time this year. 1904Sci. Amer. 30 Jan. 99/1 Manufacturers of Electric Broughams, Landaus,..Station Wagons, Surreys.
2. orig. U.S. An estate car; a saloon motor car with a rear door or doors, and capable of carrying goods as well as passengers.
1929N.Y. Times 6 Jan. xi. 1/5 The Ford Motor Company is having its own exhibition... The three new models added to the line are on display there. These are the town sedan, the convertible cabriolet, and the station wagon. 1930Amer. Speech V. 276 The other commercial bodies have usually retained old names—delivery wagon, station wagon. 1942E. African Ann. 1941–2 11/1 Safari cars..have box-bodies, of the station-wagon model. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches ii. iii. 200 This was a new cut-down Ford station waggon, with room in it for six people and a certain amount of kit. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids v. 88 We kept on foot for a while, looking out for a suitable car. After a mile or so we found it—a station-waggon. 1969Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 55/4 (Advt.), Datsun station waggon. 1976Encounter June 9/2 They advanced, the distinguished party,..down the steps, into Halpert's Dodge station wagon, where, along with two sacks of lawn fertiliser, they fitted comfortably. |