landau
IPA: ɫˈændaʊ
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.
- A surname.
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Examples of "landau" in Sentences
- Landau and Lifschitz are both dead.
- Landau is a common jewish last name.
- Landau graduated at 13 from gymnasium.
- Landau was retired at the time of his death.
- Landau was retired at the time of this death.
- It is sometimes referred to as the Landau school.
- Guralnik spends a fraction of the book on Landau.
- Melac stayed on as stronghold commander of Landau.
- The Caprice was available as the sport coupe or as the Landau coupe.
- The deluxe version of the LTD was the LTD Landau, as in previous years.
- They are alone in the immense landau, which is filled with flowers like a giant basket.
- He arrived in a comfortable open carriage — one of the kind called landau — drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses.
- He arrived in a comfortable open carriage -- one of the kind called landau -- drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.