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wainscot chair

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noun

English Furniture.
  1. an armchair of the 17th century, made of oak and having a solid paneled back.


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Wainscot Chair While stools and benches were commonly used for seats in the early seventeenth century, a wainscot chair as shown above was in use at Jamestown before 1623.

From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Jester, Annie Lash

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