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

When I am too stiff with rheumatic gout, I drive myself about in a pony chaise and feel like an aunt in a Bath chair.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

This vehicle is a regular Bath chair, into which the donkey is harnessed.

From Penelope's English Experiences by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

He might even urge me to wait until a nice Bath chair had been sent out for me from England.

From James Pethel by Beerbohm, Max, Sir