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"SEDAN CHAIRS" is a plural of: sedan chair. |
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Literature | Sedan Chairs So called from sedes (Latin, "a seat"). Their introduction into England is by Hume (vol. iv. 505) erroneously attributed to the Duke of Buckingham, who, it is said, gave great offence by employing men as beasts of burden. Sir S. Duncombe used one in 1634, when Buckingham was a boy, and we find it spoken of as far back as 1581. It was introduced into France (in 1617) by the Marquis de Montbrun, and called chaise à porteus. It is generally said that these chairs were first made at Sedan, on the Meuse; but this is not at all probable, as, without doubt, the invention was introduced into France from England. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: SEDAN CHAIRSSynonym: Palanquins. (additional references) |
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 | Asian men and Americans posed in front of building entranceway which is draped with an American flag, a girl sitting in a rickshaw and two sedan chairs, probably in China. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coolies with sedan chairs in front of ruins of Hindu temple of Prambanan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: acridness, anarchies, arachnids, archaised, archaises, ascarides, cesarians, chariness, haciendas, hardiness, radiances. | |
-3 letters: acarines, achiness, acidness, acrasins, airheads, airsheds, arachnid, araneids, archaise, archines, archness, arcsines, aridness, arsenics, ascarids, canaries, cashiers, cesarian, charades, charases, darshans, discerns, echidnas, hacienda, handcars, harassed, hardcase, hardness, inarched, inarches, rachides, rachises, raciness, radiance, radishes, rescinds, richness, sardines, scandias, shandies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-h-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+4 letters: monosaccharides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 44 41 4E 43 48 41 49 52 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01000100 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E D A N   C H A I R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0044 0041 004E 0043 0048 0041 0049 0052 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53393835482374235435253 |
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