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Definition of Chaises
1. chaise [n] - See also: chaise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaises
Literary usage of Chaises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, and on Pleading: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1837)
"... of certain plate, linen, china, furniture,' as the case may *^£OHAL Dess, and
of divers chaises and other carriages, or, ' of certain lighters and 9. ..."
2. Modern State Trials: Revised and Illustrated with Essays and Notes by William Charles Townsend (1850)
"Were the post-chaises together there?—No. Then how came you to say that ...
They were about a hundred yards from the post-chaises when I first saw them. ..."
3. Travels in Russia: &c, &c by William Rae Wilson (1828)
"Some of the one- horse chaises, kept by persons for their own travelling, are
remarkably neat. They are hung low, and have long shafts: the body is open, ..."
4. Highways and Horses by Athol Maudslay (1888)
"BEFORE speaking about post-chaises and post-boys it would be as well to speak
not only of the origin of the word post but of the actual transmission of ..."
5. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"First post-chaises two-wheeled. 281. Franks bought by the gross at 48*. from the
poor relations of members of parliament, who supplied them on purpose to ..."
6. History of Haverhill, N. H. by John Quincy Bittinger (1888)
"... Pictures and Ornaments—Wooden Plates, Sanded Floors, and Hemlock Brooms Yield —
First Four-wheeled Carriage—First Piano—chaises—Wagons—Clocks. ..."
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