landau

See also: Landau

English

A landau (carriage) in a museum

Etymology

Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlæn.dɔː/, /ˈlæn.daʊ/
• enPR: lăn'dô'

Noun

landau (plural landaus)

1. A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

   Coordinate terms: berlin, calèche

   • 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

   • 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:

     Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

2. (by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.

Derived terms

• landaulet
• landaulette

Anagrams

• Luanda

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French

landau (1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.do/

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Noun

landau m (plural landaus)

1. pram, baby carriage

   Hypernym: poussette

2. landau (carriage)

   Hypernym: hippomobile

Further reading

• “landau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• landau (voiture d’enfant) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• landau (hippomobile) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr