| 单词 | sedan chair |
| 释义 | sedan chairBicycles, carts, horses seˌdan ˈchair noun [countableC] TTBa seat on two poles with a cover around it, used in the past to carry an important person 〔旧时的〕轿子 Examples from the Corpus sedan chair• Our Balinese guide pointed to the decorated litter, a kind of oversized sedan chair, parked on the pavement.• The worshippers dragged Ace before the sedan chair, throwing her to the ground.• Goat-mask turned expectantly to the sedan chair, and stretched out a hand.• The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own, and the curtains drawn aside. (1600-1700) Perhaps from Latin sella “seat”, from sedere; → SEDENTARY |
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