Also -ette. [f. prec. + -LET.] A small landau; a coupé with a folding top like a landau. Also called demi-landau.
1771. Patent Specif., No. 997. The fore part of the head of a landawlet is constructed with a hinge [etc.].
1794. [see LANDAU].
1799. Gentl. Mag., I. 449. A vehicle with a bow-window, that is not a coach, or landau, or chariot, or landaulet, or sociable.
c. 1815. Jane Austen, Persuas. (1833), II. xii. 438. The mistress of a very pretty landaulette.
1880. Tennyson, Sisters, 84. An open landaulet Whirled by.
