{"id":21213,"date":"2021-07-23T17:06:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21213"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:07:44","slug":"chaise-longues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21213","title":{"rendered":"Chaise longues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When is a <strong>chaise longue<\/strong> not a <strong>chaise longue<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leafy168\/16213903068\/in\/photolist-qGLuuU-5hrDJa-z8rajk-7br1i4-6vJv1K-9i86TY-NKE3m5-35ckQP-sugB9f-b4aM5k-NNs9kV-PRJUzM-5duakd-NNsbZx-PYAsPC-Q2Y3L4-Q2Y272-9ut2vm-PRJUhx-NNscPt-hKU1JD-ft3fBX-5dpPua-NKE7c1-47nYXH-54T32Y-2EGsTQ-bqqc3N-2jFuhiA-dToLa7-5exud3-4vg5UU-EcNcyP-8Ke4w7-2jc8bkH-cdwXnm-fq1wAD-fgatkJ-fgatkj-fgatmY-Ro6iah-5CN87C-8fFdbL-ABUbR7-719DjA-fgatnN-QM7yQu-rEgoVb-DGP7r-9ffnQL\" title=\"CHAISE_LONGUE_Customer_Own_Fabric_Romo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7418\/16213903068_c6b892fafe_o.jpg\" alt=\"CHAISE_LONGUE_Customer_Own_Fabric_Romo\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, in English the word <strong>chaise longue<\/strong> [\u02cc\u0283e\u026az \u02c8l\u0252\u014b(\u0261)\/\u02cc\u0283e\u026az \u02c8l\u0254\u014b] refers to a long kind of seat, like the one pictured above, designed for reclining on. The word <strong>chaise longue<\/strong> was borrowed from French and literally means \u201clong chair\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chaise_longue#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In French the word <strong>chaise longue<\/strong> [\u0283\u025bz l\u0254\u0303\u0261] refers to deckchair, sunlounger, lounge chair or chaise longue (in the English sense) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/chaise+longue\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/judepics\/9538390121\/in\/photolist-fwSK56-2g69Jat-aeV5ro-8ZmpD2-zUNqYw-on3s6B-2abPkSE-jiAwLP-d2u3nb-YYT8Wb-8s2QWy-6S2bNt-2m5HmKM-A6HLj-333M7-gEfrK-8GFiq9-6Y5Hzs-6XCaqD-Lb3bQ-HNPxx5-2jo8ftZ-SdVQSo-8viNUL-a37We-5jVDgX-25NHx9S-9vaU2g-acuAec-58RWRe-6NLNkX-9NJy8W-2k96sw-2k3V9ap-7Vgkyx-2gQN5UT-7VjApC-3fL7Rn-csu5Tb-5jVEBz-6NLNAZ-j1ZGq-fpMN9H-UKts5R-gk7jr-3iRRgC-5cm9MZ-3cinJK-3angVF-5buqtA\" title=\"Deckchairs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5542\/9538390121_f5531254b1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Deckchairs\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other kinds of <strong>chaise<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chaise haute \/ chaise de b\u00e9b\u00e9 = highchair<\/li>\n<li>chaise pliante = folding chair<\/li>\n<li>chaise ber\u00e7ante = rocking chair<\/li>\n<li>chaise roulante = wheelchair<\/li>\n<li>chaise \u00e0 porteurs = sedan chair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The word <strong>chaise longue<\/strong> appears in quite a few other languages, such as Italian and Portuguese, with the same spelling and the same meaning as in English and French. Another word for this type of chair in Italian is <strong>agrippina<\/strong>, named after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agrippina_the_Elder\">Agrippina the Elder<\/a>, the daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa\">Marcus Agrippa<\/a>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/agrippina#Italian\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some other ways it\u2019s written include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belarusian: \u0448\u044d\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043d\u0433 (\u0161ezlonh)<\/li>\n<li>Czech: \u0161ezlong<\/li>\n<li>Georgian: \u10e8\u10d4\u10d6\u10da\u10dd\u10dc\u10d2\u10d8 (\u0161ezlongi)<\/li>\n<li>Japanese: \u30b7\u30a7\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30ed\u30f3\u30b0 (sh\u0113zu-rongu)<\/li>\n<li>Norwegian: sjeselong<\/li>\n<li>Polish: szezlong<\/li>\n<li>Romanian: \u0219ezlong<\/li>\n<li>Russian: \u0448\u0435\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043d\u0433 (\u0161ezlong)<\/li>\n<li>Swedish: sch\u00e4slong<\/li>\n<li>Yiddish: \u05e9\u05e2\u05d6\u05dc\u05d0\u05b8\u05e0\u05d2\u200e (shezlong)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, what is the plural of <strong>chaise longue<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is a chaise longue not a chaise longue? Well, in English the word chaise longue [\u02cc\u0283e\u026az \u02c8l\u0252\u014b(\u0261)\/\u02cc\u0283e\u026az \u02c8l\u0254\u014b] refers to a long kind of seat, like the one pictured above, designed for reclining on. The word chaise longue was borrowed from French and literally means \u201clong chair\u201d [source]. In French the word chaise longue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,99,104,107,111,115,128,129,10,31,39,41,51,52,67,78,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belarusian","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-georgian","category-italian","category-japanese","category-language","category-norwegian","category-polish","category-portuguese","category-romanian","category-russian","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases","category-yiddish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21222,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21213\/revisions\/21222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}