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landaulet|ˌlændɔːˈlɛt|
Also -ette.
[f. prec. + -let.]
a. A small landau; a coupé with a folding top like a landau. Also called demi-landau.
1771Patent Specif. No. 997 The fore part of the head of a landawlet is constructed with a hinge [etc.]. 1794[see landau]. 1799Gentl. Mag. I. 449 A vehicle with a bow-window, that is not a coach, or landau, or chariot, or landaulet, or sociable. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion (1833) II. xii. 438 The mistress of a very pretty landaulette. 1880Tennyson Sisters 84 An open landaulet Whirled by.
b. In form landaulette. A type of motor car with a leather hood above the rear seats. Also attrib.
1901Autocar 17 Aug. 153 (heading) The Peugeot landaulette. Ibid., Mr. C. Friswell's Peugeot landaulette... The vehicle may be stated to be of the standard Peugeot type, but with only such alterations made as are necessary for the accommodation of the landau body. 1905Daily Chron. 17 Nov. 8/4 Now the ‘landaulette’ is the popular car of the moment. 1906Ibid. 15 Sept. 6/2 The cabs would be of the landaulette type. 1922A. Haddon Green Room Gossip viii. 172 The other evening I rolled up to the Palladium in a big landaulette that carries seven persons. The chauffeur and I had it to ourselves. 1968G. N. Georgano Complete Encycl. Motorcars 175 (caption) 1912 Dennis 24 hp landaulette. 1973Country Life 18 Oct. 1190/3 It was not until 1909 that..I hired a cumbersome Astor landaulette from the Oxford garage. 1974Daily Tel. 19 Oct. 17/2 Rolls-Royce's most expensive current car is the open landaulette, made in very limited numbers for heads of State at a cost of about {pstlg}36,000. |