单词 | garden chair |
释义 | > as lemmasgarden chair b. With various substantives or adjectives indicating the nature, material, purpose, etc., as bed-chair, bedroom chair, camp chair, cane chair, compass chair, folding chair, garden chair, hall chair, kitchen chair, leather chair, library chair, lobby chair, obstetrical chair, office chair, rocking chair, swinging chair, Turkey chair, wheelchair. Also armchair n., Bath-chair n. at Bath n.2 Compounds 3, curule chair n. at curule adj. 1, easy chair n., elbow-chair n., great chair n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 286 A compasse chayre, halfe a circle. Hemicyclus. 1711 R. Steele Spectator 52 ⁋3 An easy chair..at the upper End of the Table. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶4 The great Elbow-chair which stands at the upper End of the Table. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. 220 Easy Leather-Chairs made..with..Springs. 1790 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 477 I..found him..sitting in a great chair. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 539 Having requested the indulgence of an easy chair at the sittings of the French Academy..the King, instead of one easy chair, sent forty to the Academy. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. i. 12 He sat in the swinging chair. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii A servant passes, pushing through the crowd a shabby wheel-chair. garden chair garden chair n. (a) a chair intended for use in a garden; †(b) a chair on wheels; a bath chair (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle pushed or pulled by person > [noun] > wheelchair wheelchaira1684 garden chair1729 Merlin chair1791 Bath-chair1823 wheeled chair1847 1729 Country Jrnl. 1 Mar. (advt.) Ready made, all Sorts of Windsor Garden Chairs of all Sizes, painted green or in the Wood. 1747 C. Cock Catal. Furnit. Duke of Chandos 12 A neat mahogany garden chair on wheels. 1831 Society 1 122 Seated in the garden-chair appropriated to Miss Herford's use, and drawn by her favourite donkey, away went the cousins. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xiii. 271 The garden chairs standing among the flower-beds. 1977 G. Woods Bloody Harvest 97 He had..two garden chairs set up so he could stretch out and watch the sun go down. 2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 427 Coach rushes me..out into..a courtyard with a set of weatherworn garden chairs. < as lemmas |
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