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

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

From Salon • Dec. 27, 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

Marinetti's hot-headed poets and artists wrestled with the icon of the motorcar.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

He said, “I done joined the dang twentieth century, folks! Gosh a’mighty, a motorcar is a marvel. A dang marvel! Hoyt, I shore am proud you got one!”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns