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wing chair

or winged chair

noun

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


wing chair

noun

  1. an easy chair having wings on each side of the back
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wing chair1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Henderson has a low, armless sofa with a soft bench cushion in his own living room, which he put next to a wing chair.

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But that didn’t mean Ophie was alone: a little girl with pale blond braids and a pinafore sat curled up in a wing chair, reading a book.

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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.

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He looked snug in a blue wing chair in a corner of his house.

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He was standing against a backdrop of leather-bound books, a globe, a vintage chandelier and what looked like a leather wing chair.

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