Sedan-chair


noun
1.
an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
noun
1.
a closed chair for one passenger, carried on poles by two bearers. It was commonly used in the 17th and 18th centuries Sometimes shortened to sedan

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