ice-cream chair
ice-cream chair noun: a lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.
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Noun
ice-cream chair (plural ice-cream chairs)
- A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.
- Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.1985, Marshall B. Davidson, Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 186
- I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain...2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel, page 55
Forms of ice-cream chair
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Origin of ice-cream chair
From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.
Questions about ice-cream chair
- What does ice-cream chair mean?
- Ice-cream chair means a lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.
- What part of speech is ice-cream chair?
- Ice-cream chair is a noun.
- What is the plural of ice-cream chair?
- The plural of ice-cream chair is ice-cream chairs.
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