Meaning of ice-cream chair | Babel Free

Definitions

A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.

Examples

“Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.”

“I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw.”

“At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards.”

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