curule chair

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) a folding seat with curved legs and no back, often ornamented with ivory, used only by certain high officials.

curule chair

noun

1. an upholstered folding seat with curved legs used by the highest civil officials of ancient Rome

Word History and Origins

Origin of curule chair¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

He is here shown seated on a curule chair, wearing a Roman toga, and holding a half open scroll in his hand.

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A special form of the sella was the famous curule chair (sella curlis), having curved legs of ivory (Fig. 71).

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"They would not have taken me from my curule chair alive," responded the attorney grandly.

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Virginia from her curule chair, tranquil and fast in the Union, will persuade, will reconcile these differences!'

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This morning he appointed me regent head of the house, and delivered me the fasces and curule chair.

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