0 in the past, a seat for one person surrounded by walls and with horizontal poles at either side, designed to be lifted and carried by two people
The widow was confronted by an abducting party with a sedan chair ready to take her away.
Yes—bring back the sedan chair.
The "sedia gestatoria" is an elaborate variation on the sedan chair.
Around the court, she was carried in a sedan chair, or used a wheelchair.
Sometimes petitioners would throw their bodies in front of a sedan chair of the high official.
They are carried by porters on staves, like a litter or sedan chair, and are usually followed or escorted by a band.
The rickshaw and sedan chair vied for customers depending on their budget, haste, or terrain to be negotiated.
A very wealthy nobleman, attended by jockeys, huntsmen, a large sedan chair with six porters, takes his seat.
