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straw-bottomed

straw-bottomed adjective: of a chair, having a seat of woven cane or with cushioning of straw.

Adjective

straw-bottomed (not comparable)

  1. Of a chair, having a seat of woven cane or with cushioning of straw.
    • Two women, one fat and the other slim, sat on straw-bottomed chairs, knitting black wool.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199
  2. Of a bottle, having a straw covering around the base, as traditional Chianti bottles.

Questions about straw-bottomed

What does straw-bottomed mean?
Straw-bottomed means of a chair, having a seat of woven cane or with cushioning of straw.
What part of speech is straw-bottomed?
Straw-bottomed is an adjective.

Words near straw-bottomed in the dictionary

  1. straw votes
  2. straw wine
  3. straw wines
  4. straw-bed
  5. straw-beds
  6. straw-bottomed
  7. straw-clutching
  8. straw-clutchingly
  9. straw-colored
  10. straw-coloured
  11. straw-grasping

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