A chaise (/ʃeɪz/shayz), sometimes called chay or shay, is a light two- or four-wheeled traveling or pleasure carriage for one or two people with 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 transference from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle.[2]
A one-horse chaiseA three-wheeled "Handchaise", Germany, around 1900, designed to be pushed by a person
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The two-wheeled version, usually of a chair-backed type, for one or two persons, also called a gig or one-horse shay, had a body hung on leather straps or thorough-braces and was usually drawn by one horse; a light chaise having two seats was a double chair.
A chaise-cart was a light carriage fitted with suspension, used for transporting lightweight goods.[1]
A bath chair was a hooded and sometimes glassed wheeled chair used especially by invalids; it could be drawn by a horse or pushed by an attendant.
Riding chair
Other types of chaise included:
post chaise : designed for fast long-distance travel;
curricle: two-wheeled, usually drawn by two horses;
calesín: small, one-horse, hooded, a seat behind for the driver, used in the Philippines;
^Huntington, A.S. (1892). Under a Colonial Roof-tree: Fireside Chronicles of Early New England. Wolcott and West. p. 33. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
^Janet Gleeson, Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana 2006:130.
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