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steamer chair

steamer chair noun: a folding chair like a deck chair but sturdier, with wooden support rather than canvas.

Noun

steamer chair (plural steamer chairs)

  1. A folding chair like a deck chair but sturdier, with wooden support rather than canvas.
    • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy)...

Forms of steamer chair

pluralsteamer chairs

Origin of steamer chair

steamer + chair

Questions about steamer chair

What does steamer chair mean?
Steamer chair means a folding chair like a deck chair but sturdier, with wooden support rather than canvas.
What part of speech is steamer chair?
Steamer chair is a noun.
What is the plural of steamer chair?
The plural of steamer chair is steamer chairs.

Words near steamer chair in the dictionary

  1. steamed off
  2. steamed pudding
  3. steamed puddings
  4. steamed up
  5. steamer
  6. steamer chair
  7. steamer chairs
  8. steamer duck
  9. steamer ducks
  10. steamer trunk
  11. steamer trunks

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