单词 | back-stool |
释义 | > as lemmasback-stool back-stool n. Brit. , U.S. a stool with a back.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > other stools standing stool1578 Turkey stool1640 back-stool1762 bar-stool1922 riempie stool1933 step-stool1966 1762 W. Ince & J. Mayhew Universal Syst. Houshold Furnit. 8/1 Four Designs of Back Stool Chairs... Four more Designs of Back Stools. 1945 Burlington Mag. July 164/2 The single chair was called at first a ‘back-stool’; for it was not a variation of the armchair by the removal of the arms, but a development of the stool, to which, in order to make it more comfortable, a back was added—hence the name back-stool. 1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 121 Although referred to in Elizabethan inventories, back stools were not in common use until the middle years of the 17th century, and the name survived during the 18th century. < as lemmas |
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