| 单词 | to take a chair | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a chair  a.  A seat for one person (always implying more or less of comfort and ease); now the common name for the movable four-legged seat with a rest for the back, which constitutes, in many forms of rudeness or elegance, an ordinary article of household furniture, and is also used in gardens or wherever it is usual to sit.  to take a chair: to take a seat, be seated. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > 			[noun]		 chair1297 1297    R. Gloucester's Chron. 		(1724)	 321  				Up a chaere he [sc. Cnut] sat adoun, al vp þe see sonde. a1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(1))	 		(1850)	 Song of Sol. iii. 9  				A chaȝer..of the trees of Liban. c1384    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(2))	 		(1850)	 Matt. xxi. 12  				He turnyde vpsadoun the bordis and [emended in ed. to of] chaungeris, and the chaiers of men sellynge culueris. a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Vesp.)	 l. 9954  				A tron of iuor graid..Was neuer yeitt king ne kaiser, þat euer sait in sli chaier [Gött. chayer, Trin. Cambr. chaiere, Fairf. cheiere]. c1400    Mandeville's Trav. xxiii. 253  				Men setten him in a Chayere. c1450    in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 723  				Hec cathedra, a chare. a1500						 (?c1450)						    Merlin xxi. 362  				He sholde do sette ther a cheyer, that..sholde be redy for the knyght in-to sitte. 1535    D. Lindsay Satyre 1941  				Heir sall the Carle clim vp and sit in the Kings tchyre. 1535    D. Lindsay Satyre 1953  				I sall sit heir, into this tcheir. 1553    R. Eden tr.  S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mij  				Tables, coberdes, cofers, and chayres. 1555    R. Eden tr.  Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde  i. v. f. 26v  				Thynges necessary to bee vsed, as cheyars. 1564    N. Haward tr.  Eutropius Briefe Chron.  iv. sig. G.viiv  				In a chaire fast besides him. a1616    W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well 		(1623)	  ii. ii. 16  				Like a Barbers chaire that fits all  buttockes.       View more context for this quotation 1704    R. Steele Lying Lover  ii. 24  				Set Chairs, and the Bohee Tea, and leave us. 1751    S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋10  				Mistaking a lady's lap for my own chair. 1753    Scots Mag. 15 36/2  				She..desired me to take a chair. 1840    F. Marryat Poor Jack xlvi. 328  				Take a chair. 1870    E. C. Gaskell Cranford viii. 116  				The chairs were all a-row against the walls. < as lemmas  | 
	
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