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- noun Plural form of
armchair .
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Examples
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In one of the armchairs is a couple, she in his lap, her legs over the armrests, her hands in his hair.
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In one of the armchairs is a couple, she in his lap, her legs over the armrests, her hands in his hair.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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He works at the biggest movie company around, where authoritative men sit in armchairs in front of bare, white backgrounds and tell real stories about historical figures.
“The Invention of Lying” is a challenging comedy » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Fat useless Britains sitting in armchairs watching us lose at huge expense for which Ken Livingstone signed a blank cheque.
Olympics to Attract Biggest Audience Ever Newmania 2007
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Fat useless Britains sitting in armchairs watching us lose at huge expense for which Ken Livingstone signed a blank cheque.
Archive 2007-09-09 Newmania 2007
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They entered the drawing-room at the moment, finding Jim and Wally in armchairs, tweed clad and unusually tidy, and chafing miserably against the tyranny of white shirts after days of soft variety.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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The average Government official would dub him as a lazy man and the people who write at homer in 'armchairs about sociological problems would also put him down as a lazy person, and naturally so.
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And while all that is going on, comfortable gentlemen sit in armchairs and write alarmist articles about the falling birth-rate and the horrible amount of infant mortality.
The Convert 1907
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"This absurd Madame Kollontay," she said, "invites the servants to come and sit in armchairs at her meetings.
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In this light, your comment in your closing remarks for the March 6 event, where you entreated people to encourage their "favorite anthropologists" to get out of their "armchairs" and study the world is doubly galling.
How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods 2009
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