Landau

Word LANDAU
Character 6
Hyphenation lan dau
Pronunciations /ˈlæn.daʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Landau"

What do we mean by landau?

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. noun

A style of automobile with a similar roof. noun

A two-seated carriage having the top in two parts, the rear part pivoted and arranged to fold down behind the back seat, and the front part admitting of removal. noun

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. noun

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other. noun

A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages. 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) noun

A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.

(by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.

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The word "landau" in example sentences

That when he got there, lo and behold! there was another carriage standing there at the gate, and not no common hack neither, but what he called a landau, with the top all throwed back, and a driver with a stove-pipe hat. ❋ Unknown (1995)

He arrived in a comfortable open carriage — one of the kind called landau — drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They are alone in the immense landau, which is filled with flowers like a giant basket. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

He arrived in a comfortable open carriage -- one of the kind called landau -- drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)

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. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

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 has been dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

A landau was a "social carriage" meant to haul four rich folks in bouncy, horse-poop-scented comfort back in the 18th century, but Malaise Era marketers in the Motor City made the name their own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de Boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Remember that the American carmaker responded to the threat of smaller, cheaper, better, more economical foreign cars in the 1970s by taking a long, hard look at its fleet of behemoths, nodding sagely, and then adding spiffier "landau roofs." ❋ Gene Weingarten (2011)

Carnarvon Avenue was narrow, and the arrival of the grand landau at number 17 on that sunny October morning caused considerable comment. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

A very slow death for what was once a family home with everything from the latest landau to the latest Standard Vanguard speeding past the door. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

Not quite a mile from Donchery is a cluster of three or four cottages, and at the first of these the landau stopped to await, as we afterward ascertained, Count Bismarck, with whom the diplomatic negotiations were to be settled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We naturally fell into conversation, and in the midst of it there came out through the gate an open carriage, or landau, containing two men, one of whom, in the uniform of a general and smoking a cigarette, we recognized, when the conveyance drew near, as the Emperor Louis Napoleon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The landau went on toward Donchery at a leisurely pace, and we, inferring that there was something more important at hand just then than the recovery of our trap, followed at a respectful distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jefferson noted in an epistle to Adams that while it was "truly less convenient than a barouche landau, still, it is the only way to know that God goes with us." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I UgöEclair, am here in the landau and have been in the landau since the timekeeper of my birthday into the landau and I stand on the landau. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Outside the shop, Ellen looked in vain for Giles and the Clairmallon landau, while discreetly stamping her boots in the cold. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

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