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BROUGHAM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brougham" is a kind of...):

saloon; sedan (a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Light carriage; pulled by a single horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brougham" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Credits

 Context examples: 

And, by Jove! here is the brougham coming round the corner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will find a small brougham waiting close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a heavy black cloak tipped at the collar with red.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We must have a cab. No, my brougham is waiting.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A brougham and pair of greys, under the glare of a gas-lamp, stood before the doctor’s door.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did you find your brougham?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have, as you discovered last night, a window at the back of my brougham, and if you desire a twenty-mile ride which will lead you to the spot from which you started, you have only to follow me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was sufficiently conversant with Holmes’s methods to be able to follow his reasoning, and to see that the nature and state of the various medical instruments in the wicker basket which hung in the lamplight inside the brougham had given him the data for his swift deduction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you would only come back with me in my brougham, you would at least be able to soothe him, though I can hardly hope that you will be able to explain this remarkable occurrence.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)