slat back
noun
a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.
Origin of slat back
1First recorded in 1890–95
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How to use slat back in a sentence
The furnishing is all of the colonial period, showing slat-back chairs and cane-seated ones.
Historic Homes | Mary H. NorthendThere are Chippendale chairs, with carved rosettes, in low relief, vis-a-vis with a child's slat-back chair.
Historic Homes | Mary H. NorthendThe year 1700 marked the introduction of the slat-back chair, which enjoyed a long period of popularity.
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings | Mary H. NorthendFrom 1710 to 1720 the banister-back chair was much used, though it never enjoyed equal favor with the slat-back type.
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings | Mary H. NorthendThe slat-back chair beside the bookcase is the most valuable type of its period, being made about 1750.
Remodeled Farmhouses | Mary H. Northend
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