Brewster chair

noun

1. a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Brewster chair¹

1920–25, Americanism; named after W. Brewster

Example Sentences

Robert Cheney, director of the Willard House & Clock Museum in North Grafton, Massachusetts, likened this caper to that of the “great Brewster chair,” created in 1969 by a former police officer who passed it off as a rare, 350-year-old piece.

From Seattle Times

Robert Cheney, director of the Willard House & Clock Museum in North Grafton, Mass., likened this caper to that of the “great Brewster chair,” created in 1969 by a former police officer who passed it off as a rare, 350-yearold piece.

From New York Times