A landaulet or landaulette carriage is a cut-down (coupé) version of a landau horse-drawn carriage. The landaulette retains the rear half of the landau's two-part folding top. The earliest use of the word shown in the Oxford English Dictionary is in a patent of 1771, using the former spelling landawlet. A variant of the brougham called a brougham-landaulette had a top collapsible from the rear doors backward. * 1816 Carriage * Landaulet carriage * Landaulet carriage