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# chaise

«chaise» in Mova's school dictionary: **In old times, a light carriage with two or four wheels…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a chaise, chaises)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In old times, a light carriage with two or four wheels, pulled by one horse, often with a folding hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#m1)

2) (in «chaise longue») a long chair or sofa with a back at one end where you can put your legs up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Mostly found in old stories and history books about the days of horses and carriages. Today people mostly meet it in «chaise longue», a piece of furniture. In a story, a chaise tells the reader that the person is travelling the old way, by horse.

### examples

- The doctor arrived in a small chaise pulled by a grey pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x1)
- In the old story the lady rode to town in her chaise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x2)
- The chaise rattled along the country lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x3)
- Grandma has a velvet chaise longue in her sitting room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x4)
- A chaise was cheaper than a big coach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x5)
- The horse stopped and the chaise tipped forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x6)
- In history we drew a picture of a chaise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x7)
- He lay back on the chaise longue with a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x8)
- It was his opinion that he had really made as great a journey as if he had travelled in a steamship, a railway carriage, or a post-chaise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/#x9)

### note

Say «shayz» (it comes from French, where it means «chair»). Plural: chaises. «Chaise longue» means «long chair» in French; in the USA people often say «chaise lounge».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chaise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.