landau

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You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands, and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all he has dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes.

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  1. noun A four-wheeled carriage with front and back passenger seats that face each other and a roof in two sections that can be lowered or detached.
  2. noun A style of automobile with a similar roof.

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  • The four bearers of the vase to Mrs. Roosevelt were promptly hailed as delightful big brothers by our two smallest boys, who at once took them to see the sights of Washington in the landau--"the President's land-ho!" —  Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
  • He dismounted and looped his reins over the back of the landau, then returned to her side and opened the small door, holding out his hand to assist her. —  THE SEDUCTION OF SARA
  • At the appointed time the director called for us in a landau, and we drove out to the penitentiary. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • They saw her leap into the Warden's landau, they saw the Warden seat himself upon her left. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • He gazed till the landau was out of his short sight; then, sighing, resumed his solitary walk The landau was rolling into "the Broad," over that ground which had once blackened under the fagots lit for Latimer and Ridley. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
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  1. After Landau, a city of southwest Germany.

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  1. Cf. German landauer, a landau; so called from Landau, a town in Germany, where such carriages were first made.
 

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