| 词汇 | brougham |
| 词源 | brougham. The brougham, a four-wheeled carriage for two or four passengers, honors Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868). This name for a one-horse carriage with an open driver’s seat and a closed, low-slung pas- senger cab behind also designated the first tall electric automo- biles, as well as an early gasoline-powered limousine with the driver’s seat unenclosed. The brougham was named after Lord Brougham in about 1850, because of his design for the “garden chair on wheels,” similar to the old “growler” horse cab. The amazing Lord Brougham, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, was among the most versatile of men—a noted lawyer, orator, poli- tician, statesman, scientist, writer, publisher, abolitionist, re- former, and one of the great wits of his day. In his later years the many-faceted genius built a cottage in Cannes, and his pres- ence there was directly responsible for the French town’s great vogue as an international resort. |
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