Also lettica, latiga. [It. lettica, lettiga:—L. lectīca a litter.] (See quots.)
1805. W. Irving, in Life & Lett. (1864), I. 114. Wynn and Wadsworth were seated in a Lettiga, a kind of sedan chair that accommodates two persons who sit facing each other.
1811. J. Bowdler, Select Pieces (1817), I. 54. Mr. Burgman had been so good to provide me with proper mules and a latiga for travelling.
1821. Earl Aberdeen, in Sir H. Gordon, Life, iii. (1893), 68. I must positively have you carried to the spot in a lettica.
1838. H. G. Knight, Normans in Sicily, 148. The lettiga is a small vis-à-vis, carried on long poles by two mules.
