What is "chaises"

Usage examples of "chaises".

I must have dozed because the next thing I became aware of was the rattle of newspaper and a conversation in Spanish taking place between two people on the chaises to my right.

They lay on adjacent chaises for much of the afternoon, hardly speaking, interaction at a minimum.

By the time they got settled, stretching out on their chaises in preparation for sunning, the flowering shrubs obscured all but Wendell's feet.

He’d tossed her into a room filled with dark, opulent furnishings—a four-poster bed draped with a black velvet spread, satin-covered chaises and chairs, an onyx wardrobe, a rug woven from gray, filmy stuff that resembled cobwebs, and a full-length wall mirror framed by gargoyles.

Mr Drelincourt had had experience of good-for-nothing lads who raced their horses against other chaises, and he disapproved strongly of this pastime.

The reflection that Edmund, before he succumbed to his malaise, would fidget and ask incessant questions decided the matter: he hired two chaises, and in so doing made the discovery that Mr Rayne, a man of modest means, did not meet with the deference accorded to his grace of Salford.

In post chaises behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along with the bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall.