wing chair
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wing chair
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
For her room at the 2019 Kip’s Bay Show House, designer Young Huh paired a pillowy 18th century Gustavian banquette with a hefty Italian marble-topped dining table and an antique wing chair.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!” or grumble that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2021
This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
Mr. Norton sat in a huge wing chair with his jacket off.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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