Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of coupé or one-seated carriage with a landau top. Also called
demi-landau .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small landau.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
landau
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Examples
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And these two were presently joined by another, and then two more, until there was a rapidly swelling crowd around the landaulet.
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Then it was that Merlin perceived an open landaulet of deepest crimson, with handsome nickel trimmings, glide slowly up to the curb and come to a stop.
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Within three minutes every inch of the landaulet, front, back, and side, was occupied by a man — a man trying to construct a sentence clever enough to find its way to Caroline through the stream of conversation.
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But it was soft enough and smile enough to make a pair of young men in cutaway coats hurry over, to pull their high hats off their wetted, iridescent hair; to bring them, flustered and bowing, to the edge of her landaulet, where her lavender gloves gently touched their gray ones.
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In the centre of her landaulet sat the lady in black and lavender, chatting pleasantly first with one, then with another of that fortunate few in cutaways who had found their way to speaking distance in the first rush.
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Instead he stayed home, did his own cooking, caught up on chores, did mechanical work on his landaulet and cleaned and polished it, and wrote a long letter to his Tertius family. \par
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
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'Lazarus handed over the bill of sale for the landaulet. \par
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
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The taxicab was a Ford landaulet like his own, but in much worse condition.
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
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Stanhopes a cab; two cabs a landaulet and pair; and so on up to the state-coach; and as their numerical relation, so is the degree of respect they may justly exact.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 Various
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Now, if she wished me to be light-headed, why did she order a landaulet?
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various
chained_bear commented on the word landaulet
"In 1907, the paper reported on his success in selling Brooklyn’s first electric landaulet, a motorcar shaped like a horse-drawn carriage." —Elizabeth Giddens, "The House of Much History," New York Times, 4/24/09, seen here
Fantastic article, by the way. I like this part too:
"I’m writing this in the erstwhile billiards room, mulling over my favorite tunnel find, the little cast-iron horse, frozen in flight beside me. My discoveries have changed the way I think about where I live. We buy a house believing it’s ours, but in fact it’s an ever-shifting palimpsest and we are merely the latest to write over it."
May 1, 2009