chaise

English

Alternative forms

• shay (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

Noun

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: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] 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.”

   • [1877], 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^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• chaisemaker
• hack chaise

 

Anagrams

• Sachie

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛz/

• Audio (France):

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• Audio (Quebec):

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• Rhymes: -ɛz

Noun

chaise f (plural chaises)

1. chair, seat

Derived terms

• arbitre de chaise
• avoir le cul entre deux chaises
• bâton de chaise
• chaise à bascule
• chaise à porteurs
• chaise de bureau
• chaise électrique
• chaise longue
• chaise percée
• chaise pliante
• chaise roulante
• chaises musicales
• être assis entre deux chaises
• nœud de chaise

 

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “chaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• séchai

Irish

Adjective

chaise

1. Lenited form of caise.

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

chaise

1. Lenited form of cas.

Mutation

Mutation of caise

radical	lenition
caise	chaise

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.