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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
landau
noun
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▪ Conduit cars 2 and 6 posing with their crews, local boys and a landau near North Pier.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Landau

Landau \Lan"dau\, n. [From the town Ladau in Germany; cf. F. landau. See Land, Island.] A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage. [Written also landaw.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
landau

type of four-wheeled carriage, 1743, from Landau, town in Bavaria where they first were made. The first element is the common Germanic element found in English land (n.); the identity of the second is disputed. But Klein says the vehicle name is "in reality" Spanish lando "originally a light four-wheeled carriage drawn by mules," from Arabic al-andul.

Wiktionary
landau

n. 1 A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other. 2 A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages.

Wikipedia
Landau

Landau or Landau in der Pfalz (pop. 41,821) is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region. Landau lies east of the Palatinate forest, Europe's largest contiguous forest, on the German Wine Route.

It contains the districts (Stadtteile) of Arzheim, Dammheim, Godramstein, Mörlheim, Mörzheim, Nussdorf, Queichheim, and Wollmesheim.

Landau (disambiguation)

Landau is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Landau may also refer to:

Landau (automobile)

Landau, when used in referencing an automobile, generally means a simulated convertible.

Landau (crater)

Landau is a large lunar crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It was named after physicist Lev Landau. The crater Wegener is attached to the northeastern rim. Attached to the southeastern rim is Frost.

The outer rim of Landau is heavily eroded and modified by subsequent impacts. The most notable of these is Wood, which overlays the northwest rim. Much of the floor is hilly and irregular, with only the northeast quadrant being somewhat level. There are multiple small craters and craterlets in the floor. The most intact section of the rim is in the southwest, although this is now little more than a low ridge line.

Landau lies at the approximate margin of the Coulomb-Sarton Basin, a 530 km wide impact crater of Pre-Nectarian age.

Landau (carriage)

A landau is a coachbuilding term for a type of four-wheeled, convertible carriage. See also Landau (automobile). It was a city carriage of luxury type. The low shell of the landau made for maximum visibility of the occupants and their clothing, a feature that makes a landau still a popular choice for Lords Mayor in the United Kingdom on ceremonial occasions.

Landau (surname)

Landau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abraham Landau, German-American-Jewish gangster
  • Barry Landau, American collector alleged to have stolen thousands of historical documents
  • Chaim Landau, Israeli Minister of Transportation
  • David J. Landau (1920–1996), author and Holocaust survivor
  • David Landau (screenwriter), American screenwriter
  • David Landau (journalist), former editor-in-chief of Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz
  • David Landau (actor), actor of the 1930s
  • David P. Landau, American physicist
  • Dov Landau, Israeli rabbi
  • Edmund Landau, German mathematician
  • Felix Landau, Austrian National Socialist, SS Hauptscharführer, served in an Einsatzkommando
  • Felix Landau (art), American art dealer
  • Guttman Landau, Bessarabian Judenrat leader
  • Henry Landau, American mathematician
  • Henry Landau (captain), British WWI Captain and author
  • Jacob Landau (artist), American artist
  • Jacob Landau, American journalist
  • Jacob ben Judah Landau, rabbi
  • Jon Landau, American music critic and record producer
  • Jon Landau (film producer), American film producer
  • Juliet Landau, American actress
  • Kurt Landau, Austrian communist
  • Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962, author (with Evgeny Lifshitz) of The Course of Theoretical Physics
  • Martin Landau, American actor
  • Michael Landau, American session guitarist
  • Moshe Landau, Israeli jurist, former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, president of the court during the Adolf Eichmann war crimes trial
  • Neil Landau, American writer, playwright, producer, director
  • Russ Landau, American musician
  • Salo Landau, Dutch chess player
  • Saul Landau, American author, documentary filmmaker, and academic
  • Seth Landau, American film maker
  • Siegfried Landau, founder of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
  • Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
  • Uzi Landau, Israeli politician
  • William Landau, American neurologist
  • Yechezkel Landau, Jewish theologian and decisor

Fictional characters:

  • Burt Landau, fictional character on "FX"
  • Dov Landau, fictional character in the novel and film Exodus

Usage examples of "landau".

The carnival began the day after my arrival, and I hired a superb landau for the whole week.

The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again.

To avoid suspicion I did not give the pair any present, but I gave up my landau to them that they might enjoy the carnival on the Corso, and I told Costa to get them a box at the Capranica Theatre.

Grigory Landau, a philosopher before he emigrated and a man whose mind Nabokov greatly respected.

Tersely Warren told Landau that the case had been decided on the merits and that any petitions for a rehearing would have to be determined in legal papers.

In the evening I took the Mengs family for a drive in my landau, and we then went to the theatre, where the castrato who played the prima donna was a great attraction.

Zij herkende den landauer, waarin zij vroeger zoo dikwijls gezeten had, en zij merkte op, dat een andere palfrenier dan Herman aan het portier stond.

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Philana ran at once to a front window and, peering out through the moonlit darkness, espied the glowing lanterns of the landau that had come to a halt in the drive below the stone steps.

Ordering Elizabeth to dress for visiting, she had summoned the landau, taken some care over her toilette, and arrived at The Forks in time for afternoon tea and, she hoped, some comforting apoplexy.

Otherwise Landau and Mulla would probably not have come all the way to Fionnphort to bring her out of retirement and in on this case.

Before Mulla and Landau snatched me out of my, um, sabbatical, I was doing some research into the history of mazes and labyrinths.

The Roman landaus seat four people and have a hood which may be lowered at pleasure.

To avoid suspicion I did not give the pair any present, but I gave up my landau to them that they might enjoy the carnival on the Corso, and I told Costa to get them a box at the Capranica Theatre.