wing chair

See also: wingchair

English

An 18th century wing chair

Noun

wing chair (plural wing chairs)

1. A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 33, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:

     He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

Synonyms

• ear chair
• grandfather chair
• wingback chair

Translations

chair

• French: fauteuil à oreilles (fr) m, bergère (fr) f
• German: Ohrensessel (de) m
• Norwegian: ørelappstol m
• Polish: berżera f
• Swedish: öronlappsfåtölj