wing chair

American  

Or winged chair

noun

1. a large upholstered chair having a back with wings.

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wing chair British  

noun

1. an easy chair having wings on each side of the back

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Etymology

Origin of wing chair

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Henderson has a low, armless sofa with a soft bench cushion in his own living room, which he put next to a wing chair.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Last weekend, I was ensconced in said wing chair, idly daydreaming — my only real hobby — when I began to wonder: How did all these books manage to get into my house?

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2021

This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

From her green wing chair, she could see everyone going almost anywhere in the house.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Related Words

• bench
• chair
• couch