elbow chair

elbow chair

See also: elbowchair and elbow-chair

English

Alternative forms

• elbowchair
• elbow-chair

Noun

elbow chair (plural elbow chairs)

1. A chair with long armrests for the elbows.
   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, II:

     she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.

   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 82790126:

     Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her [...].

   • 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.