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- Sedan chair definition, an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Sedan, also called Sedan Chair, portable, enclosed chair mounted on horizontally placed parallel poles and carried by men or animals. In Italy, France, and England, in the 17th and 18th centuries, sedans became highly luxurious and were often elaborately carved and upholstered and painted with mythological scenes or heraldic devices. With their Sedan Chair, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu complete their product family with a lightweight, elegant and comfortable chair which can be used both at dining tables and as a visitor’s chair. As is the case with the Sedan Lounge Chair, the special attraction of the design is the contrast between the seat shell and frame: the seat shell.
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It is a frowsy kind 260 of sedan-chair on wheels, with greasy leather curtains and cushions.
What the palankeen was to India the sedan-chair is to China.
Instead of the coach a sedan-chair had carried off the fugitive towards the right, in the direction of the city.
The next sufferer who appeared from the sedan-chair was the Count of Atouquia.
When all was ready, he entered a sedan-chair or palanquin magnificently carved and painted.
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2)|Henri Mouhot
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