Meaning of elbow chair | Babel Free

Definitions

A chair with long armrests for the elbows.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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, […]”

“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.”

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