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- 07-Oct-2010, 10:04 #1
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chaise and four* I am reading "Pride and Prejudice" and there is a sentence which I don't know how to translate.
"he came down on Mondey in a chaise and four* to see the place"...
can someone explain me this?
- 07-Oct-2010, 11:24 #2
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Teacher Re: chaise and four* A chaise is a kind of carriage. Four refers to the number of horses used to draw it.
- 07-Oct-2010, 16:06 #3
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Teacher Re: chaise and four* This specific question (and lots of others) were very fully aired and discussed here a while ago when another student was reading P&P. It might be worth doing a few Searches, in the interests of WAR ("Wheel: Avoidance of Reinvention")
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