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cane chair

noun

  1. a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cane chair1

First recorded in 1690–1700

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Example Sentences

The cane chair on the left is of walnut, and the one in the centre, carved and gilt, is a French adaptation of a Flemish design.

This pretty cane chair for my good man was his handiwork, and these baskets he made for me.

Colvin, sitting back in a cane chair, was contemplating the picture before him in the most complacent state of satisfaction.

He was seated on a cane chair under a clump of whispering bamboos, which are giant grasses as tall and as strong as trees.

At last Sylvia got up from the hard cane chair on which she had been sitting.

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