brougham

Named from Henry Peter, Lord Brougham (1778–1868), who either invented or popularized the vehicle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹuːəm/

brougham (plural broughams)

1. 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.
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘A Scandal In Bohemia’, Norton 2005, p.12:

     “Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

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