Chaise

A one-horse chaise

A three-wheeled "Handchaise", Germany, around 1900, designed to be pushed by a person

A chaise, sometimes called chay or shay, is a lightweight two- or four-wheeled carriage. It is made for one or two people. It is used for travel or leisure. It has a folding hood or calash top.^[1] The name, in use in England before 1700, came from the French word [“chaise”] (meaning “chair”) through a transfer from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle.^[2]

Chaise Media

Drawing of a chaise in Paris, 1799
Riding chair at Mount Vernon (18th century)
An American shay showing the wooden cantilever suspension style

References

↑ Cowie, L.W.. The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Social History (1996)Wordsworth Reference. p. 55. ISBN 1-85326-378-8.
↑ Chaise 5 (1911)Cambridge University Press. p. 802.

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[cowie-1] Cowie, L.W.. The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Social History (1996)Wordsworth Reference. p. 55. ISBN 1-85326-378-8.

[2] Chaise 5 (1911)Cambridge University Press. p. 802.

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