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elbow-chair

elbow-chair is the alternative form of elbow chair.

Meaning of elbow chair

Noun

elbow chair (plural elbow chairs)

  1. A chair with long armrests for the elbows.
    • she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II

Forms of elbow-chair

pluralelbow-chairs

Questions about elbow-chair

What is elbow-chair the alternative form of?
Elbow-chair is the alternative form of elbow chair.

Words near elbow-chair in the dictionary

  1. elbow sleeve
  2. elbow sleeves
  3. elbow tap
  4. elbow taps
  5. elbow to elbow
  6. elbow-chair
  7. elbow-chairs
  8. elbow-deep
  9. elbow-grease
  10. elbowbush
  11. elbowchair

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elbow-chair (page history and authors); elbow chair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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