Definition of "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)

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• "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."
• "He arrived in a comfortable open carriage — one of the kind called landau — drawn by two tall and powerful but not well-shaped horses."
• "They are alone in the immense landau, which is filled with flowers like a giant basket."