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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BROUGHAM , a four-wheeled closed See also:

CARRIAGE

carriage, seating two or more persons, and See also:

DRAWN

drawn by a single See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse or pair, or propelled by motor . The See also:

MODERN

modern " brougham " has See also:

DEVELOPED

developed and taken its name from the " See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

odd little See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden-See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair " described by See also:

Thomas See also:

Moore, which the first See also:

Lord Brougham had made by a coachmaker to his own See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

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Yes "the beat goes on." Robert Patrick Brougham citizen of Canada living in the nation's capital, Ottawa. Born April 16th., 1933. Happy, hearty and healthy. Have a great day, One Day at a Time.

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