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Definition of Brougham

1. Noun. Light carriage; pulled by a single horse.

Definition of Brougham

1. n. A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

Definition of Brougham

1. Noun. A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers. ¹

2. Noun. An automobile, a sedan without a roof over driver's seat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brougham

1. a type of carriage [n -S] - See also: carriage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brougham

Literary usage of Brougham

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"His retirement is said by brougham to have been caused by the ... brougham had not the honesty to acknowledge what he had done when he might have cleared ..."

2. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1869)
"brougham. Immediate Emancipation. The Speech of Lord brougham in the House ... By Henry brougham, Jun In Two brougham. An Inquiry into the Colonial Policy ..."

3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"It is Henry brougham, commoner, plain barrister, champion of popular ... He is " Baron brougham and Vaux B and is introduced among the peers as one of them ..."

4. British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901) by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1922)
"It was brougham who had organised the agitation against 1811-2 the Orders in ... With the revival of the spirit of opposition after the war, brougham gave ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"AT the last meeting of the Society for Promoting the Amendment о the Law, held very appropriately in Chancery Lane, LORD brougham announced his intention of ..."

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