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elbow chair

elbow chair noun: a chair with long armrests for the elbows.

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
    • […] Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her, […]1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...

Forms of elbow chair

pluralelbow chairs
alternative formelbowchair
alternative formelbow-chair

Questions about elbow chair

What does elbow chair mean?
Elbow chair means a chair with long armrests for the elbows.
What part of speech is elbow chair?
Elbow chair is a noun.
What is the plural of elbow chair?
The plural of elbow chair is elbow chairs.

Words near elbow chair in the dictionary

  1. elbow bone
  2. elbow bones
  3. elbow bump
  4. elbow bumps
  5. Elbow Cay
  6. elbow chair
  7. elbow chairs
  8. elbow dip
  9. elbow dips
  10. elbow grease
  11. elbow joint

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