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brougham
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__NOTOC__ A brougham (pronounced "broom" or "brohm") was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century. It was named after Scottish jurist Lord Brougham , who had this type of carriage built to his specification by London coachbuilder ...
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n. 1 A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers. 2 An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brougham \Brough"am\, n. A light, enclosed carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I saw his carriage, a fine two-horse brougham , pull away as I arrived for my visit. ▪ The driver stopped the brougham in the middle of the block without having to be told.
Usage examples of brougham.
John and the egg-shell having finally collapsed together, Lady Bellamy ordered the brougham.
Brougham, who made his first appearance in the house since Christmas, remarked that however high he held the right of petitioning, and of meeting for the purpose of discussing public affairs, he was decidedly of opinion that such a multitudinous meeting as that referred to, as well as the monster meetings of Ireland, could be viewed in no other light but as demonstrations intended to overawe the parliament and the crown by an exhibition of physical force.
He wandered over to the window and looked down, to be rewarded by the sight of Scatty Williams returning with the ancient brougham.
Never was a sentence uttered in parliament where the religious feelings and opinions of the people were concerned, even by Lord Brougham himself, more unfounded in fact.
Her black bulk, solid, unreduced by the frightful crossing, climbed into the brougham.
All this was strictly true, and without further words she drove away to the Villino Barini, the brougham Severi had hired having already disappeared.
The carriage bounced and wobbled and shook and when after crossing the Tyne they took the road to Wark by way of Chollerford she was well into her third and fourth thoughts about the advantages of broughams.
When the young lady had been put into the carriage, and the jobbed brougham had disappeared down the Rue Charlot, Brunner talked bric-a-brac to Pons, and Pons talked marriage.
He flung himself into the brougham without another word, drew the door to after him, and they were gone, whirling up the Champs Elysees, leaving me standing on the kerb looking after the polished black back of the brougham receding and growing small in the distance.
He would have her save out of her washerwoman and linendraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham.
The measures were likewise warmly advocated by Lord Brougham, who looked with confidence towards a general and effectual mitigation of the criminal code.
Taking her arm, he tucked it under his and led her out of the vestibule onto the street to the lavish brougham parked at the door.
Trans-atmospheric broughams flit between Earth and Moon, and every year the Royal Geographical Society regales us with accounts of the exploits of its newest explorers, in Traveller Crater and among the Phoebean rock animals.
The grey stone town depressed her and she was only briefly revived by the spectacle outside the station of an immaculate brougham drawn by two black horses with a gaitered and tunicked Mr Dodd holding the door open for her.
The night was dark, and my beloved angel happened to be on the right side to get out of the carriage first, so that, although the advocate was at the door of the brougham as soon as the footman, everything went right, owing to the slow manner in which Lucrezia alighted.