• IPA: /ˈlæn.dɔː/, /ˈlæn.daʊ/

landau (plural landaus)

1. A type of lightweight, four-wheeled#Adjective|wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seat#Noun|seats face#Verb|face each other.

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   • 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], OCLC 654408264 ↗, page 1 ↗:

     On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

   • 1891 June 24, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, OCLC 1006315258 ↗, page 68 ↗, column 2:

     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. (by extension) A style of automobile based around the design#Noun|design of landau carriages.