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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

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He is sitting in a little straight chair surrounded by children at the school he is visiting.

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.

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In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower.

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The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table.

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Cal sat down in the straight chair beside the bed.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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