sedan chair

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Bicycles, carts, horsessedan chairseˌdan ˈchair noun [countable] TTBa seat on two poles with a cover around it, used in the past to carry an important personExamples from the Corpussedan chair• Our Balinese guide pointed to the decorated litter, a kind of oversized sedan chair, parked on the pavement.• The worshippers dragged Ace before the sedan chair, throwing her to the ground.• Goat-mask turned expectantly to the sedan chair, and stretched out a hand.• The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own, and the curtains drawn aside.Origin sedan chair (1600-1700) Perhaps from Latin sella “seat”, from sedere; → SEDENTARY

单词	sedan chair
释义	sedan chair From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Bicycles, carts, horsessedan chairseˌdan ˈchair noun [countable] TTBa seat on two poles with a cover around it, used in the past to carry an important personExamples from the Corpussedan chair• Our Balinese guide pointed to the decorated litter, a kind of oversized sedan chair, parked on the pavement.• The worshippers dragged Ace before the sedan chair, throwing her to the ground.• Goat-mask turned expectantly to the sedan chair, and stretched out a hand.• The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own, and the curtains drawn aside.Origin sedan chair (1600-1700) Perhaps from Latin sella “seat”, from sedere; → SEDENTARY
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