Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In old English furniture, said of a chair in which the center-piece of the back has the form of a lyre.
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Examples
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His desk was there and ie austere furnishings from the bedroom and itting room in his private wing, the record payer too and the lyre-backed chairs from the msic room and the piano.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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He dropped back to his equestrian seat on the lyre-backed chair.
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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"Well, I guess it's only when you want to be," he said, grasping a lyre-backed chair by its gilt cords, and sitting down astride of it, his light grey trousers stretching too tightly over his plump thighs.
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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