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sedan chair
sedan chair Now Hist. a. = sedan 1, 1 b.1750 Will in Payne Engl. Catholics (1889) 6 My sedan chair. 1772–84 Cook'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. 1807 Med. Jrnl. XXI. 379 To allow the patient to ... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Enchanted Sedan Chair
The Enchanted Sedan Chair () is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. Summoning two flunkeys carrying a sedan chair, the magician performs an illusion in which the couple, under cover of a shawl and the chair itself, switch wikipedia.org
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Sedan (automobile)
The name derives from the 17th-century litter known as a sedan chair, a one-person enclosed box with windows and carried by porters. Etymology A sedan chair, a sophisticated litter, was an enclosed box with windows used to transport one seated person. wikipedia.org
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sedan
sedan (siːˈdæn, sə-) Also 7 cedan, (? erron.) sedam. [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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Chair (disambiguation)
shape Sedan chair, a chair carried through the streets Chair, a prize at an Eisteddfod Chair Airlines, a Swiss airline. See also The Chair (disambiguation) Electric chair (disambiguation) The Chairs Chair Entertainment, a video game developer wikipedia.org
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sedan
sedan/sɪˈdæn; sɪ`dæn/ n1 = saloon4.2 (also sedan-chair) box containing a seat for one person, carried on poles by two people, esp in the 17th and 18th centuries 轿子(尤指17及18世纪的). 牛津英汉双解词典
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Litter (vehicle)
Another form, commonly called a sedan chair, consists of a chair or windowed cabin suitable for a single occupant, also carried by at least two porters the expression "sedan chair" did not appear in print until 1615. wikipedia.org
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Two Chairmen
Its pub sign, featuring two men carrying a sedan chair, can be traced back to 1729. Apparently the sedan chair carriers would wait in the pub for fares which would appear after the cockfights had finished. wikipedia.org
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portantina
‖ portantina (portanˈtina) [It.] = sedan chair.1758 M. W. Montagu Let. May (1967) III. 149 He hopes you took nothing ill, tho' you refused the Portantina. 1937 Tablet 11 Dec. 800/1 Carried in the portantina—the Sedan chair which he now invariably uses in the palace—the Pope passed through the Salone... Oxford English Dictionary
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Richard Kelham Whitelamb
He is described as aged 22, Standing by a sedan chair, full face, left hand resting on open door of sedan chair, right hand in pocket. Vignette. wikipedia.org
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抬轿比赛
抬轿比赛(英文:Sedan Chair)通称山顶抬轿比赛,为香港的一项竞赛,于1975年开始,每年10月或者11月在香港岛太平山加列山道明德国际医院举行,由抬轿比赛慈善基金主办,为到香港慈善团体筹款。 wikipedia.org
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CN207932827U - A kind of protective device at elevator preventing ...
The utility model discloses a kind of elevator preventing colliding with top and the protective devices at crouching bottom; including car, sedan-chair frame, controller, steel wire rope, brake and rope brake; sedan-chair frame is located at the outside of car; damping element is equipped between car top and sedan-chair frame upper beam; damping element is equipped between the bottom and car ...
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輿 meaning - Chinese-English Dictionary
HSK6 舆/輿 [Pinyin] yú [English meaning] carriage/sedan chair/world [Words] 舆论,舆情,舆论界,乘舆,堪舆... [Synonym] 车,抬,搭 (Stroke Simplified 14, Traditional 17)
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彩轿
【彩轿】cǎijiào[bridal sedan chair] 旧时女子出嫁时乘坐的轿子 新华字典
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tonjon
‖ tonjon E. Ind. (ˈtɒndʒɒn) Also tomjohn. [Origin uncertain.] A kind of sedan chair slung on a pole and carried by four bearers.c 1804 Mrs. Sherwood Autobiog. xvi. (1854) 300, I had a tonjon, or open palanquin, in which I rode. 1838 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 132 After dinner he took us out to see the ... Oxford English Dictionary
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