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high-backed

high-backed adjective: of a chair, having a long back that reaches up to or beyond the head of a seated person.

Adjective

high-backed (not comparable)

  1. Of a chair, having a long back that reaches up to or beyond the head of a seated person.
    • On one side of the room was a large coffer, whose carving was worn smooth and shining with time; and on the other was a cumbrous book-case, filled with large and silver-clasped tomes. The only other articles of furniture were a small table, and a heavy, high-backed chair, covered with black serge.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 204
    • As I entered the room, the fire [...] flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4

Questions about high-backed

What does high-backed mean?
High-backed means of a chair, having a long back that reaches up to or beyond the head of a seated person.
What part of speech is high-backed?
High-backed is an adjective.

Words near high-backed in the dictionary

  1. high yellow
  2. high yellows
  3. high yo-yo
  4. high yo-yos
  5. high-accuracy
  6. high-backed
  7. high-beam
  8. high-beams
  9. high-binder
  10. high-binders
  11. high-blown

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