Brougham vs Cab - What's the difference?
brougham | cab |
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.
*1891 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘(A Scandal In Bohemia)’, Norton 2005, p.12:
*:“Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham , and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.
A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As a noun brougham
is a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839 it had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.As an initialism cab is
(us) (civil aeronautics board).brougham
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(en noun)cab
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!