单词 | demi-landau |
释义 | > as lemmasdemi-landau a. A small landau; a coupé with a folding top like a landau. Also called demi-landau. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > for private driving > specific types landau1743 landaulet1771 Tib1793 barouche1801 German wagon1805 barouchet1807 brougham1851 Sefton1885 shelburne1889 1771 Brit. Patent 997 The fore part of the head of a landawlet is constructed with a hinge [etc.]. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 39 Landau or landaulet bodies. These kinds of bodies differ nothing in shape from those last mentioned. The landau is the coach, the landaulet the chariot form. 1799 Gentleman's Mag. 1 449 A vehicle with a bow-window, that is not a coach, or landau, or chariot, or landaulet, or sociable. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. xii. 308 The mistress of a very pretty landaulette . View more context for this quotation 1880 Ld. Tennyson Sisters 84 An open landaulet Whirled by. < as lemmas |
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