straight chair
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him.
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
Having put the food in the oven and the kettle on to boil, I got a straight chair from the dining room, took it out on the porch and sat down beside him.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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