BREWSTER CHAIR Definition & Meaning

Brewster chair

noun

a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.

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Origin of Brewster chair¹

1920–25, Americanism; named after W. Brewster

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Robert Cheney, director of the Willard House & Clock Museum in North Grafton, Massachusetts, likened this caper to that of the “great Brewster chair,” created in 1969 by a former police officer who passed it off as a rare, 350-year-old piece.

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Robert Cheney, director of the Willard House & Clock Museum in North Grafton, Mass., likened this caper to that of the “great Brewster chair,” created in 1969 by a former police officer who passed it off as a rare, 350-yearold piece.

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