deckchairn.
A folding chair, often with an adjustable leg-rest, used esp. on the deck of a ship as seating accommodation for passengers; a hammock chair. Also attributive.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair
beach chair1878
hammock chair1881
deckchair1884
camp-chair1885
Savonarola chair1887
Roorkee chair1905
safari chair1913
picnic chair1920
director's chair1922
Roorkee1936
transat1968
1884 E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) v. 69 I sit here in my ‘deck’ chair.
1886 J. H. McCarthy Doom 9 The group comfortably arranged on deck-chairs.
1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World i. 3 Ladies are grouped about in pleasant corners in easy deck-chairs.
1904 Daily Chron. 6 Oct. 8/1 At eleven o'clock soup and crackers..are served and little deck-chair groups are formed.
1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 372/2 To spend one's leisure lying on a deck-chair.
1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew 17 A tennis court, a summerhouse, deckchairs by the walnut tree.
1958 Times 23 Aug. 8/6 It is the weather and not the client that rules the days of the deck-chair attendant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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