club chair

American  

noun

1. a heavily upholstered chair having solid sides and a low back.

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Etymology

Origin of club chair

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

"People, especially young girls, are now aware of the sport in a way they never have been before," said East Kilbride's club chair Amanda McDonald.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2024

Giles slept a lot for the first 30 days, she said, and when she wasn’t dozing, she “sunbathed like a cat” in a gray club chair beside a wall-to-wall window in her new kitchen.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021

He created an industrial-age club chair that, reduced to its metal frame, seemed to levitate in space.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

She sat at the far end of a couch as Weinstein sat in a club chair, and they had a brief business meeting.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 30, 2017

I was in this big leather club chair that my dad usually read the paper in.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth