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basket chair

basket chair noun: a chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.

basket chair: a chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork
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Noun

basket chair (plural basket chairs)

  1. A chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.
    • Instead of answering, Professor Challenger entered, shook hands with myself and Lord John, bowed with ponderous insolence to Professor Summerlee, and sank back into a basket-chair, which creaked and swayed beneath his weight.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of basket chair

pluralbasket chairs

Questions about basket chair

What does basket chair mean?
Basket chair means a chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.
What part of speech is basket chair?
Basket chair is a noun.
What is the plural of basket chair?
The plural of basket chair is basket chairs.

Words near basket chair in the dictionary

  1. basket bush
  2. basket case
  3. basket cases
  4. basket cell
  5. basket cells
  6. basket chair
  7. basket chairs
  8. basket clam
  9. basket clams
  10. basket days
  11. basket dinner

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