Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for straight chair. Search instead for straight hair.

straight chair

American  

noun

  1. a chair with a straight back, especially one that is unupholstered and has straight legs and straight arms or no arms.


straight chair British  

noun

  1. a straight-backed side chair

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

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

Casals sits in a straight chair, dough-faced, tubby, so tiny that his feet no more than reach the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sits in a straight chair tilted against the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adam sat down in the straight chair beside the desk.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com