Landau
[lændɒ:]
Definition
(noun.) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately.
(noun.) Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
Editor: Peter
Definition
n. a coach or carriage with a top which may be opened and thrown back.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart, denotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass in rapid succession through your life. If the vehicle is overturned, then pleasure will abruptly turn into woe. See Fields ant Earth.
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Examples
- It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We explored to King's-Weston twice last summer, in that way, most delightfully, just after their first having the barouche-landau. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A minute later we were all seated in a comfortable landau, and were rattling through the quaint old Devonshire city. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Indeed, when the time draws on, I shall decidedly recommend their bringing the barouche-landau; it will be so very much preferable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- For a moment, in the billowy darkness inside the big landau, he caught the dim oval of a face, eyes shining steadily--and she was gone. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was just balancing whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her landau when a cab came through the street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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