English Dictionary

landau

/ˈlæn.dɔː/

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.

I saw a beautiful landau carriage at the museum.

意味（1）

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

Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.

意味（2）

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