Sedan chairs were carried on long poles placed through brackets at either side of the chair. The door was at the front so the passenger could get in and out without the poles being removed. 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. Antique 1800's French SEDAN CHAIR Silk BLIND or Curtain Roses Blue Ribbons Landscape Painted Work of Art Signed and Timeworn chicandtimeworn. From shop chicandtimeworn. 5 out of 5 stars (109) 109. Sedan (n.) 1630s, 'covered chair on poles,' possibly from a southern Italian dialect derivative of Italian sede 'chair' (compare Italian seggietta, 1590s; the thing itself was said to have been introduced from Naples), from Latin sedes, related to sedere 'to sit,' from PIE root.sed-(1) 'to sit.' Since Johnson's conjecture, often derived from the town of Sedan. The sedan chair was a popular form of non-wheeled transport in Europe until the 19th century. It was fitted with a seat for one person, and was carried by two or four chairmen (depending on the occupant's weight), who lifted it using two long poles that slotted into brackets on the side of the chair, attached to leather straps that hung round the chairmen's necks.
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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.
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