motorcar

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Her style, which she described as “clear painting,” looks backward to mannerism and forward to futurism and has a high-gloss sheen to it, like the chrome plating of a motorcar.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Zelenskyy nixed the usual motorcar parade to walk among the throng that elected him, taking selfies with people along the way.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town’s first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2020

But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop.

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017

It was like she couldn’t believe we really had a motorcar unless she could go to ride or sit and look at it, one.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns