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Meanings of sedan chair in English

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A seat mounted on a frame with two poles on which a person can be carried.

        A closed litter for one passenger.

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              Examples for "litter"
              Examples for "litter"
              1
              Last year, some 5 tons of litter were left behind, she said.
              Reuters
              2
              However, by Monday there was a fair amount of litter left behind.
              The Irish Times
              3
              However, field evidence for such effect of conspecific leaf litter remains absent.
              Pubmed
              4
              He had just seen Leoben's body being carried past on a litter.
              Battlestar Galactica
              5
              A man in a smock stood in the midst of the litter.
              Through stained glass / A Novel
              Usage of sedan chair in English
              1
              Coryphene had left his sedan chair and stood tapping one foot impatiently.
              The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
              2
              At the end of the street they came upon a sedan chair.
              The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
              3
              Closing the sedan chair as he spoke, he rode on before her.
              Barbara Blomberg — Volume 08
              4
              Kedzie felt as if he were helping her from a sedan chair.
              We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
              5
              His sedan chair, that had been hidden, is planted before the Marechal.
              Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
              6
              Tullia smiled gently, pulling me by the arm to her sedan chair.
              Shadows in Bronze
              7
              The sedan chair finally dropped me off right outside Caliban's Cavern.
              Nightingale's lament
              8
              The grimy brown sedan chair scurried off a few minutes later.
              Venus In Copper
              9
              Daniel had lost his train of thought concerning the sedan chair.
              The system of the world
              10
              An elaborate open sedan chair, borne by four helmeted elves, arrived.
              The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
              11
              A Korean lady travelling in her sedan chair is quite an imposing spectacle.
              Travels in the Far East
              12
              What had a sedan chair been doing in such a place?
              The system of the world
              13
              On reaching Lord Godolphin's house they placed the sedan chair on the steps.
              In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
              14
              Federico Fellini would have been delivered in a sedan chair by tattooed cherubs.
              The Irish Times
              15
              The four metal men carefully set down their sedan chair.
              The red pyramid
              16
              The sedan chair stood ready over there by the hospital.
              Barbara Blomberg — Volume 08