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side chair

noun

  1. a straight-backed chair without arms.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of side chair1

First recorded in 1920–25

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Example Sentences

The same general directions for making the side chair apply equally to the arm chair.

"Don't put out your pipe," she said to old Grandfather Doby, rising totteringly respectful from his chimney-side chair.

Just look at that fat old roistering chair conversing with the thin straight-laced prig of a side-chair, next to him.

Chalmers got the pipe out of his pocket, sat down in the desk-side chair, and snapped his lighter.

The side chair retains its original covering of a heavy wool plush, with classic figures stamped in it of wreaths and maces.

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