brougham

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He hardly spoke another word that evening till the brougham was announced; and his wife had observed his silence.

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  1. noun A closed four-wheeled carriage with an open driver's seat in front.
  2. noun An automobile with an open driver's seat.
  3. noun An electrically powered automobile resembling a coupé.

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  • It is not late yet, we shall still find him up, and my brougham is here. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
  • So that when vanquished suitors withdrew discomfited and returned to renew an earlier allegiance or to swear a new one; when "that good child of old Marvin's" had withdrawn her pitiful little face and her disappointment into the remote fastness of settlement work; when her mother resigned all claims upon the victoria and loudly affirmed her preference for the brougham, then things in general--and Mr. Stevenson in particular--began to bore Miss Knowles, and she began to look forward, with an emotion which would have surprised her betrothed, to foreign mails and letters. —  New Faces
  • His motor-brougham, containing with himself the very unwilling Mrs. Rossiter, followed in the procession of six thousand persons which escorted the coffin across London from Victoria station to King's Cross. —  Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
  • To a maid on the upper floor she said hurriedly: "Tell Fenderson to order the brougham--at once," and passed into her chamber Closing the door, she locked it. —  Gordon Keith
  • We stopped at the little station of Anizy just outside the gates of the park; a brougham was waiting for us and a very short drive through a stately avenue brought us to the drawbridge and the iron gates of the "Cour d'honneur." —  Chateau and Country Life in France
 

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  1. After Henry Peter Brougham, First Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), Scottish-born jurist.

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  1. After the first Lord Brougham.
 

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