CHAISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaise mean? 

• CHAISE (noun)
  The noun CHAISE has 2 senses:

1. a long chair; for reclining

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

  Familiarity information: CHAISE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long chair; for reclining

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chaise; chaise longue; daybed

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chaise; shay

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)

 Context examples 

But, although it was nearly midnight when I came out of the yard in a chaise, followed by what I had in charge, there were many people waiting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They would hardly come in their chaise, I think, at that season of the year.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And I must say that Lucy's crossness not to take them along with them in the chaise is worse than all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Why is no use to be made of my mother's chaise?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A heroine in a hack post-chaise is such a blow upon sentiment, as no attempt at grandeur or pathos can withstand.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A pony-chaise was coming slowly down the village street, and in it was the queerest-looking person that I had ever seen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing at the sight of each other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Though it was rather desirable that Mr and Mrs Musgrove should be previously alarmed by some share of delay; yet the time required by the Uppercross horses to take them back, would be a dreadful extension of suspense; and Captain Wentworth proposed, and Charles Musgrove agreed, that it would be much better for him to take a chaise from the inn, and leave Mr Musgrove's carriage and horses to be sent home the next morning early, when there would be the farther advantage of sending an account of Louisa's night.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)