chaise

• shay (archaic)

Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.

• IPA^(key): /ʃeɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

chaise (plural chaises)

1. An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 159–160:

     “But why is it necessary, said Edmund, that Crawford’s carriage, or his only should be employed? Why is no use to be made of my mother’s chaise? I could not, when the scheme was first mentioned the other day, understand why a visit from the family were not to be made in the carriage of the family.”

   • , Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: , London: Jarrold and Sons, , →OCLC, part II, page 101:

     The next morning after breakfast, Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress's low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good bye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard.

2. A chaise longue.
   • 2023 July 20, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Pride Parade” (17:25 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “Now, do me a favor. Could I borrow a beach chaise?” “Beach chaise?” “I promise it's for the float. Something that one might sit out in the sun on.” “What the fuck is a beach chaise? Is that French?” “They're lawn chairs, Seanie.” “Yeah, we got lawn chairs.” “Thank you very much, very kind.”

3. A post chaise.
   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:

     It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

• Sachie

Originally, simply a variant of chaire. From Middle French chaire, inherited from Latin cathedra (“seat”), a borrowing from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra). Doublet of chaire and cathèdre.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛz

chaise f (plural chaises)

1. chair, seat

• → Alemannic German: Scheese
• → English: chaise
  • ⇒ English: shay (archaic)
• Louisiana Creole: lashèz, lashèj, shèj, shèz

• “chaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• séchai

chaise

1. Lenited form of caise.

chaise

1. Lenited form of cas.