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Webster 1913 Edition


Landau

Lan′dau

,
Noun.
[From the town
Ladau
in Germany; cf. F.
landau
. See
Land
,
Island
.]
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.
[Written also
landaw
.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Landau

LAN'DAU

,
Noun.
A kind of coach or carriage whose top may be opened and thrown back; so called from a town in Germany.

Definition 2024


Landau

Landau

See also: landau

German

Proper noun

Landau

  1. Landau (independent city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
  2. A Jewish surname.

See also

landau

landau

See also: Landau

English

Noun

a landau (carriage) in a museum

landau (plural landaus)

  1. A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
    • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 23:
      Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.
  2. A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages.

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French

landau

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑ̃.do/

Noun

landau m (plural landaus)

  1. pram, baby carriage
  2. landau (carriage)