sedann.

Brit.

/siːˈdan/,

/səˈdan/, U.S.

/səˈdæn/

Forms: Also 1600s cedan, ( sedam).

Etymology: Of obscure etymology. The conjecture (? first in Johnson, 1773) connecting the word with the name of Sedan, a town of NE. France, has nothing to support it, and seems unlikely. In 1634 the exclusive right of supplying ‘covered chairs’ was granted to Sir Sanders Duncombe; the word sedan does not occur in the grant, but the index to the patents of the year has ‘covered chairs (called sedans)’. The statement of Evelyn, that Duncombe brought the sedan from Naples may be correct, as the thing had long been in use in Italy (compare Italian seggietta in Florio, 1598). It is therefore natural to suppose that the word might be from some South Italian derivative of Italian sede (Latin sēdēs) seat, sedere to sit; but there seems to be no trustworthy evidence of the existence in Italian dialects of any form from which the English word could be derived.

a. A closed vehicle to seat one person, borne on two poles by two bearers, one in front and one behind. In fashionable use during the 17th, 18th, and early 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair

bearing-chair1352

seat1588

sedge1615

chair1634

man-litter1640

sedan1640

chair-volant1667

street-chaira1712

sedan chair1750

stick chair1800

tonjonc1804

jampan1828

1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden I 4 b Shee's now gone forth in one o' the new Hand-litters: what call yee it, a Sedan. Brit. O Sedana.

1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iii. sig. B 4^v What, have you some new project a foot now, to out-goe that of the Hand-barrowes? what call you 'em the Sedams [sic]?

1641 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 531 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Payd the men that carried my Lord George in the sedan, 1li. xvjs.

a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 353 The streetes [of Naples] are full of Gallants, in their Coaches, on horseback, & sedans, from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 191 His Majesty was immediately hurried away from the Bar into a Common Cedan.

1666 London Gaz. No. 89/2 The Empress..by reason of her weakness,..travells in her Sedan.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3867/1 The Doge was carried in a very rich Sedan.

1737 Duchess of Portland in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 610 Lady Dunkeron's sedan is yellow velvet, imbroidered and imbossed with silver.

1802 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 9 Dr. Jones seconded my proposal that he should be brought here in a sedan.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxv. 225 Mr. Muzzle opened one-half of the carriage gate, to admit the sedan.

1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 362 All sorts of vehicles, from the single sedan of the physician..to the twenty and fifty horse power team.

b. transferred. A litter, palanquin, or the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter

litterc1330

saumbury1393

cabin1587

palanquin1588

norimon1616

dooliec1625

sedan1646

pavilion1656

takhtrawan1671

go-cart1676

palki1678

portantina1758

muncheel1807

machila1833

kago1857

dandy1870

1646 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 274 He..presented the governour with a sedan, which (as he said) was sent by the viceroy of Mexico to his sister.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 52 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Some times, he is carried by several men in a Palanquin, or kind of Sedan.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xviii. vi, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 585 As Tiberius once lay at ease upon his sedan, and was carried about.

1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. v. 414 Elevated high above his vassals came the Inca Atahuallpa, borne on a sedan or open litter.

1878 J. Payn By Proxy I. iii. 25 All the neighbourhood..the rich [Chinese] in sedans, the poor on foot, were on their way to do honour to his shrine.

c. = saloon n. 4c. Chiefly North American. (Not used in the U.K.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car with fixed or rigid roof > for four or more people

saloon1908

sedan1912

saloon car1915

saloon carriage-

1912 Motor World 14 Nov. 18/1 In the new [Studebaker] cars, there is another coupe, and a ‘Sedan’, both mounted on a new four-cylinder chassis.

1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. (cover) (advt.) A touring car when the windows are down... With the windows raised, a luxurious sedan.

1922 Short Stories Feb. 98/1 The sedan had been equipped with an exhaust foot warmer or heater.

1928 R. H. Watkins Air Murders xxii The car was a dusty sedan.

1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer i. 6 A black sedan was drawn up on the shoulder of the road.

1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xx. 184 It was a massive black Lincoln sedan; a seven-seater executive-style transport.

1977 Time 8 Aug. 23/1 The two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan.

Categories »

2. U.S. regional. ‘A hand-barrow with a deep basket-like bottom made of barrel-hoops, used to carry fish’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1a.)

sedan-bearer n.

ΚΠ

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxv. 255 Mr. Grummer, commanding the sedan-bearers to halt, advanced.

sedan-maker n.

ΚΠ

1641 Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. V. 173 Paid Thomas wright, the sedan maker, dwelling in white ffriers, for my new sedan.

sedan-man n.

ΚΠ

1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. I (stage direct.) Enter Sedan-man.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs vi. 110 These Syrians were..kept by the ladies of Rome..for their chair-bearers or sedan-men.

b. (In sense 1c.)

sedan car n.

ΚΠ

1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune xxv. 325 A sedan car stopped before the door.

1957 N.Z. Listener 22 Nov. 4/4 New Zealand English has diverged from the English of England more than is generally realised owing to the influence of American usage. ‘Sedan’ car often appears in the advertisements, where an English advertisement would print ‘saloon’.

sedan model n.

ΚΠ

1948 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 14 Aug. 5/1 Besides making some substantial changes in its present sedan models it plans to put a hard top convertible into production.

C2.

sedan clock n. Historical = sedan-chair clock n. at sedan chair n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch

German watch1611

larum watch1619

clock-watch1625

minute watch1660

pendulum watch1664

watch1666

alarm watch1669

finger watch1679

string-watch1686

scout1688

balance-watch1690

hour-watch1697

warming-pan1699

minute pendulum watch1705

jewel watch1711

suit1718

repeater1725

Tompion1727

pendulum spring1728

second-watch1755

Geneva watch1756

cylinder-watch1765

watch-paper1777

ring watch1788

verge watch1792

watch lamp1823

hack1827

bull's-eye1833

vertical watch1838

quarter-repeater1840

turnip1840

hunting-watch1843

minute repeater1843

hunter1851

job watch1851

Geneva1852

watch-lining1856

touch watch1860

musical watch1864

lever1865

neep1866

verge1871

independent seconds watch1875

stem-winder1875

demi-hunter1884

fob-watch1884

three-quarter plate1884

wrist-watch1897

turnip-watch1898

sedan-chair watch1904

Rolex1922

Tank watch1923

strap watch1926

chatelaine watch1936

sedan clock1950

quartz watch1969

pulsar1970

1950 D. de Carle Watchmakers' & Clockmakers' Encycl. Dict. 129/1 Sedan clock, a small hanging clock usually associated with the period of the Sedan Chair.

1968 D. de Carle Clocks & their Value 93 The value of a sedan clock depends on the case but can be anything from about £15 to £35.

Derivatives

† seˈdan'd adj. Obsolete placed or carried in a sedan.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [adjective] > in a sedan

sedan'da1685

a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) 8 When to the Play 'tis time to go, In Pompous Coach, or else Sedan'd With Equipage along the Strand.

1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 139 The Body is by This Time Cas'd, Hous'd, Sedann'd, Box'd up, or call it what you will.

† seˈdanful n. [-ful suffix] Obsolete the occupants of a sedan.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > occupants of a sedan

sedanful1647

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs i. 6 Sedan-fulls for these hundred farthings throng.

sedanier n. [-ier suffix] a sedan-bearer.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > bearer of (sedan) chair

chairman1682

hackney chairman1710

jampanee1859

sedanier1871

1871 G. Meredith in Cornhill Mag. July 112 By the way, Richie, there will be sedaniers—porters to pay to-day.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sedan
释义	sedann. Brit. /siːˈdan/, /səˈdan/, U.S. /səˈdæn/ Forms: Also 1600s cedan, ( sedam). Etymology: Of obscure etymology. The conjecture (? first in Johnson, 1773) connecting the word with the name of Sedan, a town of NE. France, has nothing to support it, and seems unlikely. In 1634 the exclusive right of supplying ‘covered chairs’ was granted to Sir Sanders Duncombe; the word sedan does not occur in the grant, but the index to the patents of the year has ‘covered chairs (called sedans)’. The statement of Evelyn, that Duncombe brought the sedan from Naples may be correct, as the thing had long been in use in Italy (compare Italian seggietta in Florio, 1598). It is therefore natural to suppose that the word might be from some South Italian derivative of Italian sede (Latin sēdēs) seat, sedere to sit; but there seems to be no trustworthy evidence of the existence in Italian dialects of any form from which the English word could be derived. 1. a. A closed vehicle to seat one person, borne on two poles by two bearers, one in front and one behind. In fashionable use during the 17th, 18th, and early 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > carrying-chair > sedan chair bearing-chair1352 seat1588 sedge1615 chair1634 man-litter1640 sedan1640 chair-volant1667 street-chaira1712 sedan chair1750 stick chair1800 tonjonc1804 jampan1828 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden I 4 b Shee's now gone forth in one o' the new Hand-litters: what call yee it, a Sedan. Brit. O Sedana. 1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iii. sig. B 4^v What, have you some new project a foot now, to out-goe that of the Hand-barrowes? what call you 'em the Sedams [sic]? 1641 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 531 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Payd the men that carried my Lord George in the sedan, 1li. xvjs. a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 353 The streetes [of Naples] are full of Gallants, in their Coaches, on horseback, & sedans, from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 191 His Majesty was immediately hurried away from the Bar into a Common Cedan. 1666 London Gaz. No. 89/2 The Empress..by reason of her weakness,..travells in her Sedan. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3867/1 The Doge was carried in a very rich Sedan. 1737 Duchess of Portland in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 610 Lady Dunkeron's sedan is yellow velvet, imbroidered and imbossed with silver. 1802 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 9 Dr. Jones seconded my proposal that he should be brought here in a sedan. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxv. 225 Mr. Muzzle opened one-half of the carriage gate, to admit the sedan. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 362 All sorts of vehicles, from the single sedan of the physician..to the twenty and fifty horse power team. b. transferred. A litter, palanquin, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter litterc1330 saumbury1393 cabin1587 palanquin1588 norimon1616 dooliec1625 sedan1646 pavilion1656 takhtrawan1671 go-cart1676 palki1678 portantina1758 muncheel1807 machila1833 kago1857 dandy1870 1646 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 274 He..presented the governour with a sedan, which (as he said) was sent by the viceroy of Mexico to his sister. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 52 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Some times, he is carried by several men in a Palanquin, or kind of Sedan. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xviii. vi, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 585 As Tiberius once lay at ease upon his sedan, and was carried about. 1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. v. 414 Elevated high above his vassals came the Inca Atahuallpa, borne on a sedan or open litter. 1878 J. Payn By Proxy I. iii. 25 All the neighbourhood..the rich [Chinese] in sedans, the poor on foot, were on their way to do honour to his shrine. c. = saloon n. 4c. Chiefly North American. (Not used in the U.K.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car with fixed or rigid roof > for four or more people saloon1908 sedan1912 saloon car1915 saloon carriage- 1912 Motor World 14 Nov. 18/1 In the new [Studebaker] cars, there is another coupe, and a ‘Sedan’, both mounted on a new four-cylinder chassis. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. (cover) (advt.) A touring car when the windows are down... With the windows raised, a luxurious sedan. 1922 Short Stories Feb. 98/1 The sedan had been equipped with an exhaust foot warmer or heater. 1928 R. H. Watkins Air Murders xxii The car was a dusty sedan. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer i. 6 A black sedan was drawn up on the shoulder of the road. 1966 ‘A. Hall’ 9th Directive xx. 184 It was a massive black Lincoln sedan; a seven-seater executive-style transport. 1977 Time 8 Aug. 23/1 The two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. Categories » 2. U.S. regional. ‘A hand-barrow with a deep basket-like bottom made of barrel-hoops, used to carry fish’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1a.) sedan-bearer n. ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxv. 255 Mr. Grummer, commanding the sedan-bearers to halt, advanced. sedan-maker n. ΚΠ 1641 Earl of Cork in Lismore Papers (1886) 1st Ser. V. 173 Paid Thomas wright, the sedan maker, dwelling in white ffriers, for my new sedan. sedan-man n. ΚΠ 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. I (stage direct.) Enter Sedan-man. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs vi. 110 These Syrians were..kept by the ladies of Rome..for their chair-bearers or sedan-men. b. (In sense 1c.) sedan car n. ΚΠ 1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune xxv. 325 A sedan car stopped before the door. 1957 N.Z. Listener 22 Nov. 4/4 New Zealand English has diverged from the English of England more than is generally realised owing to the influence of American usage. ‘Sedan’ car often appears in the advertisements, where an English advertisement would print ‘saloon’. sedan model n. ΚΠ 1948 Herald-Press (St. Joseph, Mich.) 14 Aug. 5/1 Besides making some substantial changes in its present sedan models it plans to put a hard top convertible into production. C2. sedan clock n. Historical = sedan-chair clock n. at sedan chair n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1950 D. de Carle Watchmakers' & Clockmakers' Encycl. Dict. 129/1 Sedan clock, a small hanging clock usually associated with the period of the Sedan Chair. 1968 D. de Carle Clocks & their Value 93 The value of a sedan clock depends on the case but can be anything from about £15 to £35. Derivatives † seˈdan'd adj. Obsolete placed or carried in a sedan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [adjective] > in a sedan sedan'da1685 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) 8 When to the Play 'tis time to go, In Pompous Coach, or else Sedan'd With Equipage along the Strand. 1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 139 The Body is by This Time Cas'd, Hous'd, Sedann'd, Box'd up, or call it what you will. † seˈdanful n. [-ful suffix] Obsolete the occupants of a sedan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > occupants of a sedan sedanful1647 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs i. 6 Sedan-fulls for these hundred farthings throng. sedanier n. [-ier suffix] a sedan-bearer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > bearer of (sedan) chair chairman1682 hackney chairman1710 jampanee1859 sedanier1871 1871 G. Meredith in Cornhill Mag. July 112 By the way, Richie, there will be sedaniers—porters to pay to-day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1640
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