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gondola back

American  

noun

  1. a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.


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So she asked an employee if she could take a gondola back down, boarding at about 4:58 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2024

As the Scoobies take the slow gondola back down the mountain Matsson flies past in his whirlybird.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2023

That means ski and snowboard students can ride up to higher elevation for better quality snow during lessons, then take the gondola back down at the end of the day.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2023

If modern life stripped the divinity out of Venice’s altarpieces, and made art appreciation a secular enterprise, this show wants to turn the gondola back around.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2022

Where the snow met the street, the downhillers, having completed their inspection run, pulled in against the spectator tide and shouldered their skis, to catch the gondola back up to the top.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019