English

Noun

brougham ‎(plural broughams)

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.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, Norton 2005, p.12:

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

   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     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.

2. An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.