wing chair

American  

Or winged chair

noun

1. a large upholstered chair having a back with wings.

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wing chair British  

noun

1. an easy chair having wings on each side of the back

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Etymology

Origin of wing chair

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

He called his son-in-law “Meathead” and his wife “Dingbat,” and would snap at anyone who dared occupy his faded orange-yellow wing chair.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

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

“It’s a nightmare,” he said, presiding in a high-backed leather wing chair off the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2017

After the chair was settled and Ophie had taken a deep steadying breath, she placed the quilt from the wing chair on the rocker.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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