Definition of: chaise

(shāz) noun
1. A two–wheeled, one–horse vehicle for two persons, having a calash top, and the body usually hung on long leather straps.
2. A light, four–wheeled carriage, usually open. Chay, or shay, was formerly a common colloquial variant, from the notion that chaise was a plural form. [<F, var. of chair chair]