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A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
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(by extension) A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
Examples of landau in a Sentence
Dr Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, and the marquis of Conyngham, bearing the news of the king's death, started in a landau with four horses for Kensington, which they reached at five o'clock.
Spires (Speyer) is the seat of government, and the chief industrial centres are Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, which is the principal river port, Landau, and Neustadt, the seat of the wine trade.
Landau was founded in 1224, becoming an imperial city fifty years later.
The Landau branch of the family became extinct in 1 495, and in 1631 Waldeck inherited the county of Pyrmont, which had originally belonged to a branch of the Schwalenberg family.
He cared so little for Germany, as distinguished from Austria, that he allowed Lous to compel the diet to cede the imperial fortress of Landau.
In co-operation with Hoche and the army of the Moselle, Pichegru, now general of division and in command of the army of the Rhine, had to reconquer Alsace and to reorganize the disheartened troops of the republic. They succeeded; Pichegru made use of the élan of his soldiers to win innumerable small engagements, and with Hoche forced the lines of Haguenau and relieved Landau.
Abandoned first by England and then by Holland, the emperor, notwithstanding these desertions, still wished to maintain the war in Germany; but Eugene was unable to relieve either Landau or Freiburg, which were successively obliged to capitulate; and seeing the Empire thus laid open to the armies of France, and even the Austrian hereditary states themselves exposed to invasion, the prince counselled his master to make peace.
This dealt entirely with the question of the frontier between France and the Empire, which was restored as it was before the outbreak of the war except that France gained Landau.
Although during the first campaigns (1701-1703) in Italy, in Germany and in the Netherlands success was equally balanced, the successors of Villarsthanks to the treason of the duke of Savoywere defeated at Höchstadt and Landau, and were reduced to the defensive (1704).
Similar behavior is seen for the Landau free energy in the canonical ensemble.
In the microcanonical ensemble the presence of a first-order phase transition is indicated by two maxima in the Landau entropy separated by a well.
He does not precisely sing, of course; but then he looks so unassuming in his open landau!
It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge.
Some of these vehicles were called " landaus " by their manufacturers, and many were fitted with landau bars on the rear quarters.
Although during the first campaigns (1701-1703) in Italy, in Germany and in the Netherlands success was equally balanced, the successors of Villarsthanks to the treason of the duke of Savoywere defeated at Höchstadt and Landau, and were reduced to the defensive (1704).
Cameron's dedication to the project was exhibited when he installed a stoplight outside the office of co-producer Jon Landau's office to show the status of the project.
The award went to Martin Landau for his performance in Ed Wood.
The season's emotional stakes were raised with the arrival of vampires Spike (James Marsters) and Drusilla (Juliet Landau).
For a fashionable look, try a pair of Landau pants done with a flare leg.
You may even want to pair them up with a great pair of Landau clogs accented with a team logo on the side.
For the best jon landau titanic will be held.