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A vis-à-vis is a
A vis-à-vis is a carriage
A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers. In Europe they were a common mode of transport for the wealthy during the Roman Empire, and then again from around 1600 until they were replaced by the motor car around 1 ...
in which the passengers sit face to face with the front passengers facing rearward and the rear passengers facing forward. The term comes from the French ''vis-à-vis'', meaning face to face.
These carriages are still commonly made by Amish
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carriage makers in the midwestern United States
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. Also in the Western world
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, the vis-a-vis is the most common type of carriage style used to cart tourists and leisure seekers in downtown urban settings.
Passengers sit back-to-back on dos-à-dos carriages.
Examples
The following types of carriage had vis-à-vis seating: * Barouche * Berline *Landau
Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz (, ), is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long ...
Automobiles
There were vis-à-vis automobiles in the early history of motoring. These were driven from the forward-facing rear seat, with front passengers sitting ahead of the steering controls and facing the driver. , page=484 Passengers in the front seat would obstruct the vision of the driver in the rear seat, and the style fell out of favour before 1905.See also
*Horse-drawn vehicle
A horse-drawn vehicle is a piece of equipment pulled by one or more horses. These vehicles typically have two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by auto ...
* Car body styles
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