hack chaise

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Noun[edit]

hack chaise (plural hack chaises)

  1. (historical) A hired open carriage, a form of taxi.
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Keepsake 1833, One Peep was Enough, page 304:
      Two o’clock arrived, and with it a hack chaise: out of it stept, sure enough, a lady and gentleman.
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