sedan chair in English

noun

litter, portable closed passenger vehicle for one person suspended between poles and carried by men (was common during the 17th and 18th centuries)

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1. 15 She went home in sedan chair.

2. Short for sedan chair Collins Explanation of Chaired

3. 17 The bride gets off the sedan chair bashfully.

4. 16 Promoting environmental protection in the Matilda Sedan Chair Race.

5. 14 Goat-mask turned expectantly to the sedan chair, and stretched out a hand.

6. 12 The worshippers dragged Ace before the sedan chair, throwing her to the ground.

7. 29 On the sixth day of the New Year , Tigress climbed into the bridal sedan - chair.

8. 6 The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own, and the curtains drawn aside.

9. 21 Our Balinese guide pointed to the decorated litter, a kind of oversized sedan chair, parked on the pavement.

10. 123), Aileen Ribeiro cites an early nineteenth century observation that a Behooped lady stuffed into a sedan chair "does not ill …

11. 123), Aileen Ribeiro cites an early nineteenth century observation that a Behooped lady stuffed into a sedan chair "does not ill …

12. The name, in use in England before 1700, came from the French word [“Chaise”] (meaning “chair”) through a transference from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle.