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Brougham vs Landau - What's the difference?

brougham | landau |

As nouns the difference between brougham and landau

is that 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 while landau is a type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

brougham

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • landau

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
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  • A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages.

    • Derived terms

    * landaulet, landaulette

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