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单词 to take a chair
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to 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.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun]
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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.
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