Armchair

Definitions

1. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
2. A position removed from that which one is
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.”

“[W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw⟳ Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand⟳ there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.”

“Evaluating possible etymologies requires a significant amount of knowledge about the speakers' lived reality […] for instance, the semantic connection between some species of plant⟳ and its use⟳ in traditional medicine may be fully transparent to a native speaker, but harder to understand⟳ from the perspective of a linguist's armchair.”

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