shandrydan
Americannoun
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an old-fashioned hooded chaise.
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a rickety, old-fashioned conveyance.
noun
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a two-wheeled cart or chaise, esp one with a hood
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any decrepit old-fashioned conveyance
Etymology
Origin of shandrydan
First recorded in 1810–20; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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There's the old shandrydan crawling after him with the luggage.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl
She wants to drag him home with her in that shandrydan!
From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
On a Friday afternoon in the June of the year 1880, a roomy old shandrydan, midway between a trap and a wagonette, moved slowly along the Porth Neigr and Llanyglo road.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
Miss Brindley, joyfully ready to see Cettinje and anything else that might turn up, joined Jo and Jan in the old shandrydan carriage which lumbered along for seven hours to Cettinje.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora
Armitage had watched Ed. bring the old bone-shaking shandrydan he called a coach up to the hotel, and put a couple of young horses into it.
From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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