Roorkeen.

Brit.

/ˈrɔːki/,

/ˈrʊəki/, U.S.

/ˈrʊrki/

Forms: 1900s– Rhoorkee, 1900s– Rhoorkhee, 1900s– Rhoorkie, 1900s– Rhorkee, 1900s– Roorkee, 1900s– Roorkhee, 1900s– Roorkie, 1900s– Rorkee, 1900s– Rorkhee, 1900s– Rurkee, 1900s– Rurki. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymons: proper name Roorkee, Roorkhee, Roorkie.

Etymology: < Roorkee, †Roorkhee, †Roorkie, etc. (Hindi Rūṛkī), the name of a city in Uttarakhand, India, formerly the headquarters of the Corps of Royal Engineers.

I. Compounds.

1. Roorkee chair n. a type of collapsible chair, with wooden frame and canvas back and seat.

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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

1905 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Rules & Price List 15 Mar. 261/2 Roorkhee folding chair. Each 18/9 (Supply uncertain) Do. do., English make, of ash throughout, better finished. Each 21/6.

1907 T. R. Swinburne Holiday in Happy Valley x. 166 Right glad was I to sit in a comfortable Roorkhee chair and admire the preparations for dinner after a stiff day.

1953 J. Masters Lotus & Wind v. 69 There was no furniture left except a folding table and a Roorkie chair on which the colonel sat.

1975 C. Allen Plain Tales from Raj v. 65 Perhaps some Roorkee chairs, made of canvas stretched on wood.

2005 Interior Design (Nexis) 31 May (Suppl.) 235 The sun may have set on the British Empire, but there will always be the Roorkhee chair.

2. Roorkee work n. rare a kind of canvas work associated with Roorkee.

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1937 G. Frankau More of Us xiv. 147 Splendid sank Circe to a canvas throne Of rhoorkee work.

II. Simple uses.

3. A Roorkee chair. rare.

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