Sedan
[sɪ'dæn]
Definition
(noun.) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
(noun.) a closed litter for one passenger.
Editor: Peter--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
Typist: Lucinda
Definition
n. a covered chair for one carried on two poles generally by two bearers: a hand-barrow for fish.
Typed by Alice
Examples
- He returned to France after Sedan, and flung himself into the stormy politics of the defeated nation with great fire and vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He threw away the extinguished candle, which, all this time he had held above his head, and fairly bolted into the sedan-chair where Mrs. Dowler was. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Early in November British troops were in Valenciennes and Americans in Sedan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She's flighty, you know,--very flighty,--quite flighty enough to pass her days in a sedan-chair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My opinion is, it's a sedan-chair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Edited by Craig