Savonarola chair

noun Italian Furniture.

a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.

Compare Dante chair.

Origin of Savonarola chair

First recorded in 1915–20; after G. Savonarola

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