Sedan
noun
1.
an enclosed automobile body having two or four doors and seating four or more persons on two full-width seats.
2.
sedan chair.
noun
1.
a city in NE France, on the Meuse River: defeat and capture of Napoleon III 1870.
noun
1.
(US & Canadian, NZ) a closed two-door or four-door car with four to six seats Also called (in Britain and certain other countries) saloon
2.
short for sedan chair
noun
1.
a town in NE France, on the River Meuse: passed to France in 1642; a Protestant stronghold (16th–17th centuries); scene of a French defeat (1870) during the Franco-Prussian War and of a battle (1940) in World War II, which began the German invasion of France. Pop: 20 548 (1999)
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