slat back

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noun

a chair back having two or more horizontal slats between upright posts.

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Origin of slat back

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby slat back

slash pine, slash pocket, slash-saw, Śląsk, slat, slat back, slatch, slate, slate black, slate blue, slate-colored junco

How to use slat back in a sentence

The furnishing is all of the colonial period, showing slat-back chairs and cane-seated ones.
Historic Homes|Mary H. Northend
There are Chippendale chairs, with carved rosettes, in low relief, vis-a-vis with a child's slat-back chair.
Historic Homes|Mary H. Northend
The year 1700 marked the introduction of the slat-back chair, which enjoyed a long period of popularity.
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings|Mary H. Northend
From 1710 to 1720 the banister-back chair was much used, though it never enjoyed equal favor with the slat-back type.
Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings|Mary H. Northend

The slat-back chair beside the bookcase is the most valuable type of its period, being made about 1750.
Remodeled Farmhouses|Mary H. Northend