sedan
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9.9
- noun
- /sɪˈdæn/
- Archaic
:
palanquín
- As the parade began, the bride was lifted into the sedan chair adorned with flowers and ribbons.
- sedan chair
Examples
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Historically, nobility preferred to travel short distances in a comfortable sedan chair carried by porters.
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Upon arriving at the groom's home, the sedan chair was set down at the door of the "new room" (xin fang).
Academic text (1998) -
The sedan chair: The Great Wall of China done in style
Blog text (16) -
A short while after the dowry sets out, members of the older generation bring the bride to the sedan chair.
Academic text (1998) -
Before 1949, whenever the sedan chair departed, parents, brothers, and sisters wailed as they sent off the bride.
Academic text (1998) -
In 1894, she made an eight-thousand-mile journey to Korea and China where, forsaking horseback, she rode in a sedan chair.
Fiction book (2000) -
The groom's family prepares the necessary carts and sedan chair, and sends lineage members, neighbors, and friends to bring the dowry home.
Academic text (1998) -
In the free marriages of the 1950s and 1960s in Dongyang, the custom of riding in a sedan chair was discontinued, and generally the bride walked to her husband's house without fear of being reprimanded.
Academic text (1998) -
In ancient times, the wealthy would be carried in a sedan chair during special events.
Synonyms
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9.9
An enclosed chair for one person that people used to carry on poles
Compounds
How Enclosed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sedan originally meant a covered chair carried by people and comes from the Latin root sedere 'to sit'. So a sedan was literally a 'seat' made to carry one passenger.