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

I’ll stay at home like a good little girl, and wheel my mammie in a Bath chair.

From More About Peggy by Unknown

"I'll get you a Bath chair," he said, beckoning to the attendant.

From Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney

And twice a day I should go down in a Bath chair to the Colonnade to drink the waters.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome