Windsor chair

American  

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.

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Windsor chair British  

noun

1. a simple wooden chair, popular in England and America from the 18th century, usually having a shaped seat, splayed legs, and a back of many spindles

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Etymology

Origin of Windsor chair

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

He does much of his work in a Windsor chair with his lap full of manuscripts, shortens interviews by seating visitors in an uncomfortable straight-backed Italian chair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sat down in his father’s old arm chair and motioned me into a hard Windsor chair nearby.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

He was, it occurred to him, his father’s son, and now he brooded in the same spindle-back Windsor chair his father had brooded in.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

I pulled my old Windsor chair up to his desk and sat down.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler