Bath chair

American  

Or bath chair

noun

1. a wheeled and hooded chair, used especially by invalids.

2. any wheelchair.

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Bath chair British  

noun

1. a wheelchair for invalids, often with a hood

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Etymology

Origin of Bath chair

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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Bath chair

Skittles made her parade through Hyde Park in a Bath chair.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wouldn’t have recognized him as Jamie—tonight he was the picture of rosy health, nothing like the gray-faced, grieving invalid she’d last seen slumping bandaged and unresponsive in a Bath chair.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

He was an invalid, keeping his bed half the time, and the other half hobbling round the house with a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a Bath chair.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

She leant against the side of the Bath chair, and held out a tentative hand.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

They carry me in a Bath chair to and from the theater.

From Charles Frohman: Manager and Man by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick