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Brewster chair

American

noun

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.

Etymology

Origin of Brewster chair

1920–25, named after W. Brewster

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