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Recent Examples of landau
The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
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Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Also, my Honda had neither a landau top nor finicky SU carburetors.
—Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 25 Apr. 2020
Unlike Ford’s landau-laden Florida Edition and Presidential Package, the Twingo aims for a younger demographic.
—Keith Barry, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2010
Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Also, my Honda had neither a landau top nor finicky SU carburetors.
—Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 25 Apr. 2020
Unlike Ford’s landau-laden Florida Edition and Presidential Package, the Twingo aims for a younger demographic.
—Keith Barry, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landau
Noun
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
Noun
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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2023
Noun
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The bright blue Miami edition of the roadster, worth more than $3 million, is included with the purchase of one of the Pagani Residences’ two penthouses.—
Catherine Odom,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Donald Healey Motor Company completed its first automobile in 1945, entering full production the following year with the Elliott sports saloon and Westland roadster.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
16 Aug. 2021
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.—
Dan Neil,
WSJ,
31 Aug. 2017
Noun
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High jinks ensue, including a hilarious scene in the Big Game with a scampering dog and a chariot chase.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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But the main focus of the chariot race, and of all television really, is what’s happening on the actors’ faces.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Sometimes Pearl reads like Gulliver netted by the Lilliputians, tossing in a troubled sleep on the poolside chaise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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But if your space isn’t conducive to an L-shape, this chaise-less silhouette is 20% off in its gray performance textile and ivory wool bouclé upholsteries.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.—
Brenda Yenke,
cleveland.com,
7 Feb. 2018
Noun
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The 1934 Packard LeBaron all-weather cabriolet was designed to be driven by a chauffeur.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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The coupe will start at $272,650 and the cabriolet at $286,650, an increase of around $30,000 and $40,000, respectively.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Landau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landau. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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