Obs. [F. chaise-marine ‘a sort of seat on board a ship so supported as to be free from the effects of rolling and pitching,’ but Littré has not the Eng. sense.]
? A kind of chaise, the body of which rests on suspension-straps between cee-springs.
1739. Cibber, Apol. (1756), II. 79. A chaise-marine to carry our moving wardrobe to every different play.
1763. C. Talbot, in Lett., I. 538. I could not help telling her of the overthrow of the Chaise marine.
1823. Act 4 Geo. IV., c. 95 § 19. Nothing in … this Act … shall extend … to any chaise marine, coach, landau, berlin.
