landau

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 lăn'dô'

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages. broadly

词形变化

landaus plural

词汇关系

衍生词
landaulet landaulette

词源

Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.
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