side chair

side chair
noun
a straight-backed chair without arms
Syn: ↑straight chair
Hypernyms: ↑chair
Hyponyms: ↑Windsor chair
Part Meronyms: ↑rung, ↑round, ↑stave, ↑splat

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noun
: a chair without arms used especially in the dining room — see windsor chair illustration

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a straight-backed chair without arms.
Also, sidechair /suyd"chair'/.
[1920-25]

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side chair,
1. an armless chair.
2. one of a set of chairs, with or without arms, placed at the side of a table or room: »

A matching side chair, low-armed and inviting, is $55 (New Yorker).

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n. an upright wooden chair without arms

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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