electriquette

plural electriquettes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Electriquette

   Then we came out and got into an "electriquette" which is a self-pushing rolling chair.

   1915, Willard Connely, “Through Panama to Frisco The San Diego Exposish”, in Boston American

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   The Governor was riding about with his little son in an electriquette escorted by his staff and President Davidson. "Oh, please wait a minute," said a woman, and ran, breathlessly after the wheeled chair.

   1915, Mary S. Gulliver, “Celebrities Flock to San Francisco Fair”, in The Los Angeles Times

   [...] then the soft whirr of rubber tires, and, lo, the Vice-President of the United States of America has gone by in an electriquette. Of course, chances are, you do not know what an electriquette happens to be. Jack Roosa, who’s been down to San Diego to see, tells us that it is a comfortable, two-seated sedan chair, fitted with much the same apparatus that drives an electric automobile. Only, it is simpler—so very much simpler that a mere child can operate it.

   1915, Felix J. Koch, “AMERICA’S VICE-PRESIDENT TRIES ELECTRIQUETTE.”, in Electrical Experimenter - Science And Invention, page 96

   This view seen along the Esplanade or along the Marina, changing as you traveled on the Fadgl train or the Overfair Railroad, or in an electriquette, or passed leisurely afoot, was part of the matchless picture of the Exposition.

   1921, Frank Morton Todd, “The City Wall”, in The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal, page 295

   The only vehicle for use within the exposition grounds is a small motor chair known as an "electriquette" which carries two or three people and is limited to a speed of three and one half miles per hour.

   1972, Davis Dutton, “San Diego and the Back Country”, in When the World Came to San Diego, page 146

plural Electriquettes · alternative electriquette

1. historicalobsoleteAn early form of battery-powered motorized wheelchair or slow-speed cart, typically featuring a two-person bench seat enclosed by a wicker or rattan exterior.