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sedan chair Now Hist.
a. = sedan 1, 1 b.
1750Will in Payne Engl. Catholics (1889) 6 My sedan chair. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 25 The ladies however use a sedan chair,..which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair. 1807Med. Jrnl. XXI. 379 To allow the patient to be carried home in a sedan chair. 1840Malcolm Trav. 52/1 The worst that would probably happen to a proper man making the trial, would be to be placed in a sedan chair, and transmitted to Macao. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect I. 14 Sedan Chairs..were the usual modes of conveyance..to parties, balls [etc.].
b. transf. (see quot.).
1869Cassell's Househ. Guide I. 72 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.
c. sedan-chair clock, watch Hist., a large travelling watch of a type supposed to have been hung in sedan chairs.
1904F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches (ed. 2) iv. 244 During the eighteenth century watch movements having plain silver dials from three inches to four inches in diameter were fixed in circular frames of wood, polished and with a moulded edge. They were called ‘Sedan Chair Watches’, though I cannot aver that they were as a rule carried in those useful, but obsolete conveyances. 1951E. Wenham Old Clocks for Mod. Use vii. 47 It is still possible to obtain one of these..portable timepieces generally referred to as ‘Sedan chair clocks’ or, to give them another earlier name, ‘post-chaise clocks’. 1960House & Garden Apr. 99/3 Sedan-chair clocks..reproductions and an antique. |