chaise

[ UK /ʃˈe‍ɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈʃeɪz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a long chair; for reclining
  2. a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse
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How To Use chaise In A Sentence

  • 'I was told – I was assured –' said Bellamy, 'that a mad bull was running wild about the country; and I thought it, therefore, advisable to send for a chaise from the nearest inn, that I might return this young lady to her friends.' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day. Travels through France and Italy
  • The ride was long, but, with my saddle-bags and Lucy, a new mare my aunt had raised and given me, and clad in overalls, which we called tongs, I cared little for the mud, and often enough stopped to assist a chaise out of the deep holes, which made the roads dangerous for vehicles. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
  • I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _ Five Little Peppers Abroad
  • White-faced and heavily rouged, she rests on a chaise-longue in front of a large ornate looking-glass.
  • Also visit Pere Lachaise, the cemetery -- fascinating!! What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
  • She bought herself a new chaise, a light landaulet which would take her around her own garden, as well as other people's. My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
  • But they can also use a chaise longue. The Sun
  • But there should have been chaise longues instead of seats; then we could lie back and enjoy the night with a nice glass of malt whisky to hand.
  • Two hours later we run into each other on the beach: I'm in a restaurant, fully clothed; he is bronzed, lying on a chaise on the sand, in pink bathing trunks.
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