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landeau

landeau is the alternative form of landau.

Meaning of landau

Noun

landau (plural landaus)

  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...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  2. (broadly) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.

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Forms of landeau

plurallandeaus

Questions about landeau

What is landeau the alternative form of?
Landeau is the alternative form of landau.

Words near landeau in the dictionary

  1. landdroses
  2. landdrost
  3. landdroste
  4. landdrosts
  5. lande
  6. landeau
  7. landeaus
  8. landed
  9. landed cost
  10. landed costs
  11. landed down

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