shandrydan

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English

Etymology

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Noun

shandrydan (plural shandrydans)

  1. (dated, humorous) A hooded chaise; any similar horse-drawn vehicle with no definite name.
    • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 134 (1968 edition):
      The odd-man gardener has brought the Rectory shandrydan round to the front door — it was a long elongated open vehicle drawn by a mild old mare named Lucy.
  2. (dated, Ireland, humorous, derogatory) A vehicle; a carriage or cart.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shandrydan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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