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Definition of Sedan

1. Noun. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.

Definition of Sedan

1. n. A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

Definition of Sedan

1. Noun. an enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair ¹

2. Noun. (US Australia Canada NZ) The most common body style for modern cars, with a boot or trunk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sedan

1. a type of automobile [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedan

Literary usage of Sedan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"And yet caution was necessary in speaking of the possibilities of a sedan for the German army;—at least in the popular sense of that word, as a victory over ..."

2. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"From the station we proceed straight on through the village, cross the Meuse, and follow the sedan road to the left on the left bank. At the (I'/iM. ..."

3. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1905)
"sedan lies about l'/z M. from the cross-roads near ... As we continue to follow the road to sedan we have a ..."

4. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grand-duchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1901)
"From the station we proceed straight on through the village, cross the Meuse, and follow the sedan road to the left on the left bank. ..."

5. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"surrender of rienced the great battle of sedan on the ist; in which we Napoleon m made towards thirty thousand prisoners and forced back the at sedan regt ..."

6. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1906)
"Day before yesterday before daybreak I left my quarters here ; to-day I am returning, and have in the meantime experienced the great battle of sedan on the ..."

7. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"NAPOLEON THE THIRD AT sedan ONE day, no doubt, the inevitable historian will undertake the task of writing a detailed account of the strange events which ..."

8. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"sedan CHAIRS (so called from sedan), were tirât seen in England in 1581. ... sedan chairs came into London in 1634, when sir Francis ..."

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