folding chair

Historical Examples

• He sat down in the folding-chair, and whistled noiselessly for a time.

  The War in the Air

  Herbert George Wells

• In order to sit down beside the young lady he needed a folding-chair.

  Sarrasine

  Honore de Balzac

• The Virgin is seated in a folding-chair which is familiar in fifteenth-century art.

  Donatello

  David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

• He and the baron took armchairs and the young hostess sat on a folding-chair, with one elbow on her harpsichord.

  The Mesmerist's Victim

  Alexandre Dumas

• In the meanwhile, Brooke had flung himself down in a folding-chair in his tent.

  A Damaged Reputation

  Harold Bindloss