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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, one-horse closed carriage with two or four wheels, for two or four persons, from first Lord Brougham (1778-1868). The family name is from a place in Westmoreland.
Wiktionary
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.
WordNet
n. light carriage; pulled by a single horse
a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat
Wikipedia
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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 Robinson & Cook in 1838 or 1839. It had an enclosed body with two doors, like the rear section of a coach; it sat two, sometimes with an extra pair of fold-away seats in the front corners, and with a box seat in front for the driver and a footman or passenger. Unlike a coach, the carriage had a glazed front window, so that the occupants could see forward. The forewheels were capable of turning sharply. A variant, called a brougham-landaulet, had a top collapsible from the rear doors backward.
Three features specific to the Brougham were:
- the sharply squared end of the roof at the back,
- the body line curving forward at the base of the enclosure, and
- low entry to the enclosure, using only one outside step below the door.
Brougham was a short-lived rap rock/ nu metal side project founded by Jason Slater ( Snake River Conspiracy, ex- Third Eye Blind), and his childhood friend Luke Oakson aka Luke Sick ( Sacred Hoop) in Palo Alto, California, USA. Brougham recorded an album, Le Cock Sportif, for Warner Bros. Records in 2000. The album was a commercial flop. Only a few tracks appeared on hard-rock radio stations and shows before the band eventually dissolved.
A track titled "I Walked In" appeared on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Can't Hardly Wait.
Brougham (, , , or ) may refer to:
transport:- Brougham (aircraft), a single-engined aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s.
- Brougham (carriage), a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
- Brougham (car body), an automobile with a similar style
- Cadillac Brougham, since 1916
- Daewoo Brougham, 1991-1997
- Holden Brougham, 1968–1971
- Mercury Brougham, 1967–1968
- Nissan Cedric Brougham/ Gloria Brougham, 1975-2004
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Brougham, Cumbria, civil parish on the outskirts of Penrith
- Brougham Castle, in the parish
- Brougham, Ontario, Canada, community within Pickering
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Baron Brougham and Vaux, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom since 1830
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868), British statesman
- Doris Brougham (b. 1926), Taiwanese educator and Christian missionary
- Henry Brougham (sportsman) (1888–1923), British rackets player
- James Brougham (1780–1833), British politician.
- John Brougham (1814–1880), Irish-American actor and dramatist
- Royal Brougham (1896–1978), Washington sports journalist
- Tom Brougham, California gay rights activist
- Brougham (band), short-lived rap/nu metal band in 2000
- Brougham (shoe), brand of shoe from Adidas
A brougham was a car body style based on the earlier brougham carriage. Similar in style to the later town car, the brougham style was used on chauffeur-driven petrol and electric cars. Electric broughams in the United States later evolved, becoming owner-driven cars without the outside seat for the chauffeur, but they kept the "brougham" name. By World War II the original meaning of the term "brougham" had been largely forgotten, with American manufacturers using the term to denote a more luxurious trim level on a fully enclosed car. General Motors has since used the term as a model name several times, while manufacturers in the United States have often used the term as a trim package designation.
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.