shandrydan

plural shandrydans · alternative shanderadan

1. datedA hooded chaise; (later, jocular) any rickety old-fashioned vehicle.

   Mr Lingnam went on like our shandrydan, slowly and loudly.

   1914 August, Rudyard Kipling, “The Vortex”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 387

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   [C]oming home in that old fiveseater shanderadan of a waggonette you were in your heyday then and you had on that new hat of white velours […].

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 426

   The odd-man gardener has brought the Rectory shandrydan round to the front door — it was a long elongated open vehicle drawn by a mild old mare named Lucy.

   1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, published 1968, page 134

   Synonyms: shandry