CHAISE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse

Synonyms:

chaise; shay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chaise" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Meronyms (parts of "chaise"):

calash; calash top; caleche (the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long chair; for reclining

Synonyms:

chaise; chaise longue; daybed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chaise" is a kind of...):

chair (a seat for one person, with a support for the back)

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Context examples:

“Clara Peggotty BARKIS!” he returned, and burst into a roar of laughter that shook the chaise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Rushworth proposed that the chaise should be taken also; but this was scarcely received as an amendment: the young ladies neither smiled nor spoke.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He cannot be the instigator of the three villains in horsemen's greatcoats, by whom she will hereafter be forced into a traveling-chaise and four, which will drive off with incredible speed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We have a chaise, ma'am, a very handsome chaise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Think of the sport that it was to me to sit through the long hours, listening for the wheels of the chaise which would bring my man back to me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Davies was coming to town, and so we thought we'd join him in a post-chaise; and he behaved very genteelly, and paid ten or twelve shillings more than we did.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A sudden freak seemed to have seized him at breakfast, and he had sent for a chaise and set off, intending to return to dinner, but with no more important view that appeared than having his hair cut.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Musgroves were not at all tired, and Mary was either offended, by not being asked before any of the others, or what Louisa called the Elliot pride could not endure to make a third in a one horse chaise.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

We got into the chaise again soon after dark, and drove cosily back, looking up at the stars, and talking about them.