landau
lan dow
- n Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968)
- n a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately
- In the landau were a pair of rich ladies dressed for a party, each smiling and holding a tiny candle out the windows of the carriage.
- Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off.
- As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King.