chaise
IPA: ʃˈeɪz
noun
- An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
- A chaise longue.
- A post chaise.
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Examples of "chaise" in Sentences
- So you going to chaise somebody.
- Mathews escaped in a post chaise.
- He buys a chaise to continue his journey.
- The station organises horse and chaise riding.
- A cross between chaise longue, couch and a bed.
- I am going to Temple's, and the chaise is at the door.
- He began as a chaise painter in his father's chaise manufactory.
- I have not addressed the Chaise Longue because it is not the same.
- Rise up off your silken chaise thou odalisque, and deign to click the previous.
- The reading chaise is all put together and I have had the chance to try it out.
- Chance gives me an opportunity of forwarding this by New York; I write whilst my chaise is getting ready.
- Once I had a very young copy editor change the term chaise longue, in a text of mine, to the commonly used "chaise lounge."
- 'I thought you called the chaise yours,' said I. 'That's my way of speaking,' said the man; 'but the chaise is my master's, and a better master does not live.
- She was charmed to find your opinion agreed with her own, and settled that we should go to town to-morrow morning: and a chaise is actually ordered to be here by one o'clock.
- xiEnglish-speakers did the same thing to the French word longue when, in the early nineteenth century, they heard it as the unrelated word lounge to form the phrase chaise lounge.
- As you can see from the pictures attached below the Calla Chair can be transformed in chaise lounge by suitables joints arranging the arms overall opening as well as different positions in very good comfort.
- 'I was told – I was assured –' said Bellamy, 'that a mad bull was running wild about the country; and I thought it, therefore, advisable to send for a chaise from the nearest inn, that I might return this young lady to her friends.'