sedan chair

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /sɪˈdan tʃɛː/    美 /səˈdæn ˌtʃɛər/|/səˈdæn ˌtʃɛr/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An open or enclosed chair raised on poles and carried by people or animals, used as a mode of transport. historical
    — In Rio de Janeiro the gentry keep their chaises, which are drawn by mules; the ladies however use a sedan chair, boarded before and behind, with curtains on each side, which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair, by two rods, coming from under its bottom, one on each side, and resting to the top.
  2. An equivalent mode of transport created by two people grasping each other's forearms, making a seat for the rider.
    — Another way of carrying a patient is upon what is known among school-boys as a ‘sedan-chair’, each bearer grasping his own fore-arm and that of his fellow about its middle... and the patient grasping the bearers' necks.

词形变化

sedan chairs plural sedan-chair alternative

词源

Clarifying the intended meaning or sense of sedan.
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