brougham

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with an enclosed passenger body and an open driver's seat

   A waiting brougham carried the guests from the station to the house.

2. 2
   noun

   an early automobile body resembling that carriage, usually enclosed for passengers but open for the driver

   The museum displayed a chauffeur-driven electric brougham from the early twentieth century.

Named for the British statesman Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, for whom the compact carriage was designed in the 1830s. The name later passed from the horse-drawn vehicle to a similarly enclosed style of automobile body.

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