Windsor chair

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.

Windsor chair

noun

1. a simple wooden chair, popular in England and America from the 18th century, usually having a shaped seat, splayed legs, and a back of many spindles

Word History and Origins

Origin of Windsor chair¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

I rested both hands upon the arms of my Windsor chair and so managed to stand erect.

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Priam sat down on a windsor chair fearfully, like an intruder, his face towards the choir.

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But when she had poured the hot water into a bowl she sat down in the Windsor chair by the fire and gazed into the hot coals.

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As a matter of fact, he was sitting trussed upon a windsor chair in an underground thieves' cellar-kitchen.

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The Windsor chair he sat in was unstable—which presently afforded material for humour.

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