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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
ah, okay ! that makes more sense.
(absently fingering the pendant of pedantry) --ahem-- say it with me : chaise longue. it means, rather aptly, a "long chair."
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Something that has been horribly corrupted in the English. We actually say (and write) chaise lounge .... meaning a chaise that you lounge on.
Strange, but true.