Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
arm-chair .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
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- noun Alternative form of
elbow chair .
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Examples
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I feel, I feel the presence of supernatural assistance! circled in the embrace of my elbowchair, my breast labours, like the bloated Sybil on her three-footed stool.
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He composed much in the morning, and dictated in the day, sitting obliquely in an elbowchair, with his leg thrown over the arm.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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