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brougham

[ UK /bɹˈʌfəm/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹuɡəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. light carriage; pulled by a single horse
  2. a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat

How To Use brougham In A Sentence

  • The brougham, a one-horse closed carriage, with two or four wheels, is named after him.
  • The flood area extended from central Devon Street down Brougham Street to the railway shunting yards.
  • We followed him to a brougham carriage waiting at the curb. The Curse of the Wendigo
  • Will you come out with me now – my brougham will be at the door directly – and I'll take you to a confectioner and let you choose for yourself? The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
  • High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones. Max
  • The brougham was a token of harmony, of the fine conditions papa would this time offer: he had usually come for her in a hansom, with a four-wheeler behind for the boxes. What Maisie Knew
  • Horse drawn broughams can still be seen at horse fairs and special occasions, and are in many cases restored Victorian broughams.
  • Drawing his curricle up behind the brougham, Vane reined in his appetites along with his horses, and languidly descended to the verge. A RAKE'S VOW
  • Lord Westbourne was now interred in the new cemetery by the side of Lord Brougham, but his murderer was as yet undiscovered.
  • No sooner had Froude spoken than, as Mr.W. S. Lilly has pointed out, "gigmanity" was up in arms, and was speedily joined by the brougham and tandem people. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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