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wing chair

wing chair noun: a chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught.

wing chair: a chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
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Noun

wing chair (plural wing chairs)

  1. A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
    • He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I

Synonyms of wing chair

Forms of wing chair

pluralwing chairs

Questions about wing chair

What does wing chair mean?
Wing chair means a chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught.
What part of speech is wing chair?
Wing chair is a noun.
What is the plural of wing chair?
The plural of wing chair is wing chairs.

Words near wing chair in the dictionary

  1. wing bars
  2. wing bone
  3. wing bones
  4. wing case
  5. wing cases
  6. wing chair
  7. wing chairs
  8. Wing Chun
  9. wing collar
  10. wing collars
  11. wing commander

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