Word: sedan-chair
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...What does this woman mean?" Chang thought. "Does she think my mother is going to be carried around in a sedan-chair...
...glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised as to forfeit a quiet walk for a ride...
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