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Sedan

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Se·dan  (s-dn, s-dä)
A town of northeast France on the Meuse River near the Belgian border. It was the site of the decisive defeat and surrender of Napoleon III (September 2, 1870) in the Franco-Prussian War. Population: 20,300.

se·dan  (s-dn)
n.
1. A closed automobile having two or four doors and a front and rear seat.
2. A portable enclosed chair for one person, having poles in the front and rear and carried by two other people. Also called sedan chair.

[Origin unknown.]

sedan
Noun
US, Canad, Austral & NZ a saloon car [origin unknown]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Sedansedan - a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors
brougham - a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat
auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
2.Sedansedan - a closed litter for one passenger    
jampan - a kind of sedan chair used in India
litter - conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
Translations
sedan [sɪˈdæn] n (US) (AUT) → sedán m

sedan [səˈdæn] n (US) (Aut) → berline f

sedan [səˈdæn] (US) n (Aut) → Limousine f

sedan [səˈdæn] n (US ) (AUT) → berlina

sedan
n sedan [siˈdӕn]
(American) a covered car for four or more people. sedan سَيّارةٌ كَبيرَةٌ لأربَع أشْخاص أو أكْثَر седан sedan sedan die Limousine κλειστό επιβατικό αυτοκίνητο sedán sedaan اتومبيل چهاردر sedan berline מְכוֹנִית מִשפָּחתִית पालकी, डोली limuzina sedan sedan lokuð fólksbifreið berlina 乗用車 세단형 자동차 sedanas, limuzinas sedans, limuzīns sedan sedan sedan, personbil limuzyna sedA berlină седан sedan limuzina sedan sedan รถยนต์เก๋งสองตอนขนาดย่อม มีสองหรือสี่ประตู binek otomobil 私家轎車 седан چار یا زیادہ بیٹھنے والوں کے لیے بند موٹرکار ô tô mui kín 轿


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Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling-closet; which Glumdalclitch held in her lap in a kind of open sedan, after the fashion of the country, borne by four men, and attended by two others in the queen's livery.
He was at Sedan, very much annoyed at a court intrigue in which Anne of Austria seemed inclined to desert his cause.
Four of these native pirates will carry you to the top in a sedan chair, if you wish it, but suppose they were to slip and let you fall,-- is it likely that you would ever stop rolling?
 
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