corner chair

American  

noun

1. a chair having an approximately square seat with a leg at each corner and a back extending around two adjacent sides.

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Example Sentences

Theodore Lerner sat in the corner chair of the front row of a conference room Wednesday afternoon, listening.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2015

At Mr. Welcher’s Fifth Avenue apartment, even a corner chair is positioned so that its occupant can get an eyeful of the park.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2012

“We live under different rules here,” she said, eyeing her mother superior who kept a watchful eye from a corner chair.

From Newsweek • Jun. 8, 2012

Chief victims are those confirmed bachelors or men-between-marriages who had made the club their home, establishing their squatters' rights to a corner chair, reading the shared newspapers on the long wooden sticks.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hurry up the stairs to where Lou Ann is sitting in the comfortable corner chair.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko