shandrydann.
/ˈʃandrɪdan/ A kind of chaise with a hood. In later use, a jocular designation for any rickety old-fashioned vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > with hood
calash1666
cabriole1756
cabriolet1760
shandrydan1820
chariotee1825
Victoria1870
1820 J. Hogg in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 391 Dr. Morris wheeling..yon furious shandrydan.
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 277 [A parody of Moore's Loves of the Angels.] When in Hyde Park we grac'd the ride In the old royal shandaradan.
1829 A. Sedgwick in Clark & Hughes Life & Lett. (1890) I. 353 A machine with two seats, but in every other respects like a Dent's shandery-dan.
1830 E. Holmes Scenes in our Parish 276 To be sure Haynes the cobler has a curious shandridan, sometimes open and sometimes covered.
1838 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 235 One of those cabs (or shanderadans, as they call them).
1849 J. Colquhoun Rocks & Rivers 15 Now, landlord, out with the shan-dra-dam.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxxii. 134 Having got the last shandry-dan deposited under the hay-house, he had just time [etc.].
1860 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine Introd. 3 The only private carriage that appears in the streets is the Princess's shandredan.
1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 75 When..gigs and shandradans of every grade would be bespoken by special retainers.
1873 R. A. Fitzgerald Wickets in West 70 Shatterydans of various kinds conveyed them to the Russell House [Ottawa].
1900 E. Glyn Visits of Elizabeth 158 A few of the really odd kinds of shandrydans that one sees coming to country garden parties in England.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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