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• fiddle back
  fiddle back

  noun

  a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
• fiddle-back
  fiddle-back

  noun

  a chair with a fiddle-shaped back

fiddle back

American  

noun

1. a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.

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fiddle-back British  

noun

1. a chair with a fiddle-shaped back

2. a chasuble with a fiddle-shaped front

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Example Sentences

Larry, however, put his fiddle back in its case while breakfast was served out.

From Paddy Finn by Webb, Archibald

"What good would it do me to get the fiddle back if I would die from starvation first?"

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague

Now if I am right and we take the fiddle back, then we are acting like a couple of cheap yokels, ain't it?

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague

"I don't want the fiddle back, Felix," he said, "but my partner, y'understand, he is the one which is always—" "Say no more, Abe," Felix cried.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Glass, Montague

"Mais, oui," said the French-Canadian, placing his fiddle back under his chin, and the stirring air went on again.

From Bring Me His Ears by Mulford, Clarence E.