an enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair
A sedan is a car with seats for four or more people, a fixed roof, and a boot that is separate from the part of the car that you sit in. a car that has four doors, seats for at least four people, and a trunk British Equivalent: saloon (sedan chair)
A closed-roof passenger car with four doors and a trunk for carrying cargo, or a similar two-door car with at least 33 cubic feet of rear interior space
In general terms, this refers to a 4-door car that has a separate trunk In R/C terms, this refers to a car that is generally 1/10 scale in size, and is the most popular form of on-road R/C racing in the world right now These kits started out modeling the cars that formed the DTM racing league in Germany in the early 1990's, but (because of interchangeable bodies) now can represent anything from the latest LeMans racer, to street trucks, to the newest cruiser on the road
a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors a closed litter for one passenger
As used by Car and Driver, the term "sedan" refers to a fixed-roof car with at least four doors or any fixed-roof two-door car with at least 33 cubic feet of rear interior volume, according to measurements based on SAE standard J1100
A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, usually borne on poles by two men
{i} closed passenger car carrying four or more passengers in a single compartment; portable covered chair carried by two people, sedan chair
A sedan chair is an enclosed chair for one person carried on two poles by two men, one in front and one behind. Sedan chairs were used in the 17th and 18th centuries. a seat on two poles with a cover around it, used in the past to carry an important person (Perhaps from sella , from sedere; SEDENTARY)
{i} litter, portable closed passenger vehicle for one person suspended between poles and carried by men (was common during the 17th and 18th centuries)
(Sept. 1, 1870) Defeat of the French army in the Franco-Prussian War that led to the fall of the Second Empire. At the French border fortress of Sedan on the Meuse River, 120,000 French troops under Maurice, count de Mac-Mahon, were attacked by more than 200,000 German troops under Helmuth von Moltke. After Mac-Mahon was wounded, the confused French command tried unsuccessfully to break through the encircling German lines with massive cavalry charges. Emperor Napoleon III, who had accompanied Mac-Mahon, realized the French position was hopeless and surrendered with 83,000 troops