Meaning of brougham | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with an open seat for the driver in front of a closed cabin for two or four passengers, designed in 1839.
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3. An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.

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Examples

““Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.””

“It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own⟳ type⟳, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park⟳ side.”

“The shooting motor cars, more like⟳ spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think⟳ of the world she lived in.”

“Mr. H. R. Pope writes that in 1879 his father bought a new brougham in London, and the vehicle was taken to Victoria Station for conveyance to Brighton by passenger train⟳. It so happened that the carriage truck was attached to the train⟳ by which Mr. Pope and his father were returning to Sussex, and the stationmaster allowed them to make⟳ the journey in the brougham.”

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