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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various light open carriages, often with a collapsible hood, especially a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse.
  2. n. A post chaise.
  3. n. A chaise longue.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Properly, a two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by one horse, and generally furnished with a hood or top that may be let down. In dialectal speech often shay.
  2. n. A four-wheeled pleasure-carriage drawn by two or more horses.
  3. n. A French gold coin first issued by Louis IX. in the thirteenth century. It was equal to about three United States gold dollars. The specimen illustrated weighs about 73 grains. Chaises were also coined in England in the reign of Edward III.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
  2. n. A chaise longue.
  3. n. A post chaise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse.
  2. n. a carriage in general.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a long chair; for reclining
  2. n. a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse

Etymologies

  1. From French chaise. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, chair, variant of Old French chaiere; see chair. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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