landau
Collocations
4ADJ.
comfortable, gleaming, little, neat
LANDAU + NOUN
coachman
PREP.
in, up, with
ADV.
freely
Definitions
noun
A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.
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.
A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
name
A surname.
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4Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbo
WiktionaryOn 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
WiktionaryAway 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 e
WiktionaryA minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city.
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