slat back


noun
  1. a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.

Origin of slat back

1
First 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. Northend
  • There are Chippendale chairs, with carved rosettes, in low relief, vis-a-vis with a child's slat-back chair.

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  • The year 1700 marked the introduction of the slat-back chair, which enjoyed a long period of popularity.

  • From 1710 to 1720 the banister-back chair was much used, though it never enjoyed equal favor with the slat-back type.

  • The slat-back chair beside the bookcase is the most valuable type of its period, being made about 1750.

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