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camp chair

American  

noun

  1. a light folding chair, usually with a canvas seat and back.


Etymology

Origin of camp chair

First recorded in 1880–85


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“The people that were killed here were left here,” said Spilsbury, sitting at dusk in a camp chair nestled among the trees.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

If you’re packing, say, a $500 carbon fiber camp chair, why wouldn’t you want your car to match?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

I sat on a camp chair with stiff spikes of bunchgrass poking into the canvas.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

She ordered him a camp chair from Amazon so he could sit on the Supreme Court steps during the arguments.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

Singer saw the room just as he had left it—with the large bed for Antonapoulos and the iron cot for himself, the big overstuffed sofa and the camp chair.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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