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bed chair

American  

noun

  1. an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.


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These infants were typically found in an adult bed, chair or couch instead of the crib or bassinet recommended by sleep experts.

From Science Daily Mar. 22, 2024

The ballet is a cartoon of existential angst, but, leaping over bed, chair and table, Baryshnikov turns it into a young man's rage at mortality.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For years," says Oppenheimer, "I was terrified of a new bed, chair, bar, room or restaurant."

From Time Magazine Archive

No glaring white bed, chair, table, wall to affront the eye and emphasize the illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the next floor were the dormitories—a great hall divided by board partitions into little sleeping cells about eight feet square, each containing a neat bed, chair, and stand.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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