chaise

chaise
/shayz/, n.
1. a light, open carriage, usually with a hood, esp. a one-horse, two-wheeled carriage for two persons; shay.
2. See post chaise.
3. a chaise longue, esp. a light one used out of doors.
4. Also called chaise d'or /shayz dawr"/. Numis.
a. a gold coin of France, first issued in the early 14th century, which bears a figure of the king seated on a large throne.
b. an Anglo-Gallic copy of this coin, issued by Edward III.
[1695-1705; < F, var. of chaire CHAIR]

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 (French: “chair”), originally a closed, two-wheeled, one-passenger, one-horse carriage of French origin, adapted from the sedan chair. The carrying poles, or shafts, were attached to the horse's harness in front and fixed to the axle in back. The body of the carriage was set in front of the axle with its bottom lower than the shafts. The chaise body's position between the shafts provided stability but made side doors impossible, so that the passenger had an awkward climb over (or else had to duck under) the shafts in order to enter the carriage by a front door that opened downward. At first, the passenger drove the horse from within; later, the chaise was managed by a driver riding the horse.

      The chaise was adapted and widely used in both 18th-century England and the United States. The New England, or Boston, chaise, which was suspended on a combination of leather thoroughbraces and wooden cantilever springs, was uniquely American. The term shay, as in “one-horse shay,” was an American corruption of chaise. The chaise was one of the most important passenger vehicles of the 18th century, and in America its popularity foreshadowed that of the buggy a hundred years later. The word chaise was also applied indiscriminately to numerous varieties of carriage.

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