an armchair, esp. one of an early American type (see quot. 1935).
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释义 | society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > other armchairs (8) great chair1749 an armchair, esp. one of an early American type (see quot. 1935). porter's chair1806 a chair with an arched hood, originally placed in a hallway for a porter or doorkeeper to sit in. sleepy-hollow chair1820 (a) a name given to a place with a soporific atmosphere or characterized by torpidity (in quot. 1820, to which some quots. allude, the name of a… roundabout1834 U.S. (chiefly New England). = roundabout chair n. at compounds 2. Obsolete. Glastonbury chair1853 Used attributively in Glastonbury chair n. a kind of armchair, designed in imitation of ‘the Abbot of Glastonbury's chair’ preserved in the Bishop's… frowst1905 At Harrow School: see quots. club chair1919 carver1927 An armchair among a set of dining-chairs, usually set at the head of the table as for the one who carves. |
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