concept
Landau
landau
also: ландо
A four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, fashionable for leisurely rides where passengers could see and be seen by the passing crowd.
Reading notes
- Difficult People §52 a light, elegant landau
A landau is a four-wheeled carriage with a folding top that could be raised or lowered in two sections, associated with leisured, well-to-do travel; the old landowner's landau marks a visible contrast between her genteel outward calm and the hidden family troubles the narrator immediately goes on to describe.
- In the Landau §1 landau
A four-wheeled carriage with a folding top that could be opened in fine weather, fashionable for leisurely rides where the occupants could be seen -- and could see -- the passing crowd on the Nevsky.