broughams

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Max 2009

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

I didn't know what broughams were made for, but now I know.

Chapter 7: The Bishop's Vision 2010

Why would editors now look for a writer describing riding down streets on horses, wearing petticoats, or ordering broughams to call on neighbours, visiting card in hand?

Andrew Franklin: The Real Reason Why Publishers Miss Good Books 2008

Another British film in the recognizable subgenre of thinking outside the box and applying determination saving the family or other business - in this case apparently based on a true story, a fourth-generation shoe factory owner in Northampton 1 trying to save the business by switching from making sensible broughams to boots for drag queens.

[film] Kinky Boots badger 2006

Holiday times always bring out old stored-away vehicles and odd people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapidated old racing motors with huge pneumatic tyres.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

K.C.B., and have seen him, as they may on most days in the season, padded and in stays, strutting down Pall Mall with a rickety swagger on his high-heeled lacquered boots, leering under the bonnets of passers-by, or riding a showy chestnut, and ogling broughams in the Parks — those who know the present Sir George

Vanity Fair 2006

Those pretty heads of ladies whom nobody knows, used to nod their shining ringlets at Kew, from private boxes at theatres, or dubious Park broughams.

The Newcomes 2006

Even the ladies in their victorias and broughams were trotting down Piccadilly on some errand or other.

The Years 2004

The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think of the world she lived in.

The Voyage Out 2004