German

Proper noun

Landau

1. Landau (independent city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
2. A Jewish surname​.

See also

• Landau in der Pfalz
• Landauer

English

Noun

a landau (carriage) in a museum

landau ‎(plural landaus)

1. A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 23:

     Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.

2. A style of automobile which is based around the idea of landau carriages.

Derived terms

• landaulet, landaulette

Anagrams

• Luanda

French

landau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.do/

Noun

landau m ‎(plural landaus)

1. pram, baby carriage
2. landau (carriage)