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Chaise
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(the French for "chair," through a transference from a "sedan-chair" to a wheeled vehicle), a light twoor four-wheeled carriage with a movable hood or "calash"; the "post-chaise" was the fast-travelling carriage of the r8th and early 19th centuries. It was closed and four-wheeled for two or four horses and with the driver riding postillion.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Chaise'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/chaise.html. 1910.