straight chair
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Casals sits in a straight chair, dough-faced, tubby, so tiny that his feet no more than reach the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each dress is reviewed by the patron himself, sitting in a straight chair, clad in a long white butcher's smock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower.
From Time Magazine Archive
His two rooms were furnished only with an upright piano, a straight chair, a small table and an unmade double bed.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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