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shandrydan en · NOUN

Etymology

Unknown

Meanings

1. (dated) A hooded chaise; (later, jocular) any rickety old-fashioned vehicle.
   • 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:
   • 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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Synonyms

shandry