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

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

If it's nice and warm, I shall have a Bath chair, which you and Jonah will propel at a convenient pace.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

It was a room used by the gardeners for the arrangement of flowers for the house, and had been chosen on the present occasion as offering the easiest access to the Bath chair.

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

So thought old Aunt Laura who had had herself drawn up by the porch in her Bath chair, as far away as possible from "the horses' hoofs."

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald