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sedan (iou)



sedan noun. M17.
[Perh. alt. of Italian dial. word ult. from Latin sella: see SADDLE noun.]
In full sedan chair. An enclosed chair for conveying one person, carried on horizontal poles by two porters (one in front and one behind), fashionable in the 17th and 18th cents. Also transf., a litter; a palanquin. Now chiefly Hist. M17.
More fully sedan car. An enclosed motor car for four or more people, a saloon. N. Amer. E20.
Comb.: sedan-chair clock, sedan clock Hist. a travelling clock of the kind supposed to have been hung in sedan chairs.