sedan

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an enclosed car seating four or more; an enclosed carried chair

   They drove off in a sleek black sedan toward the airport.

Simplified etymology

Sedan comes from an Italian dialect word derived from Latin sella “seat,” a relative of saddle. In American English it was applied by 1912 to a closed car with a separate luggage compartment, called a saloon car in Britain.

Early 17th century, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Italian dialect 'sede' or from Latin 'sedere' ('to sit'), though the connection to the town of Sedan is now doubted.

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