Word: landeaux
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing the arms of Luxembourg. Whips cracked, the landeaux rattled merrily down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand...
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