grandfather's chair

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English

Noun

grandfather's chair (plural grandfather's chairs)

  1. A type of easy chair with projecting areas at the top.
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not..., Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 116:
      The dining-room had windows on each side and a beam across; the dining silver had been picked up at sales, the tumblers were old cut glass; on each side of the ingle was a grandfather's chair.

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