landauletn.
/ˌlandɔːˈlɛt/, U.S. /ˌlændɔˈlɛt/, /ˌlændɑˈlɛt/ a. A small landau; a coupé with a folding top like a landau. Also called demi-landau.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > for private driving > specific types
landau1743
landaulet1771
Tib1793
barouche1801
German wagon1805
barouchet1807
brougham1851
Sefton1885
shelburne1889
1771 Brit. Patent 997 The fore part of the head of a landawlet is constructed with a hinge [etc.].
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 39 Landau or landaulet bodies. These kinds of bodies differ nothing in shape from those last mentioned. The landau is the coach, the landaulet the chariot form.
1799 Gentleman's Mag. 1 449 A vehicle with a bow-window, that is not a coach, or landau, or chariot, or landaulet, or sociable.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. xii. 308 The mistress of a very pretty landaulette . View more context for this quotation
1880 Ld. Tennyson 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 attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car with hood over rear part
landaulette1901
town car1906
coupé de ville1930
1901 Autocar 17 Aug. 153 (heading) The Peugeot landaulette.
1901 Autocar 17 Aug. 153 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.
1902 Car 5 Nov. 367 Electric Landaulette.
1905 Daily Chron. 17 Nov. 8/4 Now the ‘landaulette’ is the popular car of the moment.
1906 Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 6/2 The cabs would be of the landaulette type.
1922 A. 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.
1968 G. N. Georgano Compl. Encycl. Motorcars 175 (caption) 1912 Dennis 24 hp landaulette.
1973 Country Life 18 Oct. 1190/3 It was not until 1909 that..I hired a cumbersome Astor landaulette from the Oxford garage.
1974 Daily 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 £36,000.
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