captain-chair

captain's chair

noun
a chair having a rounded back formed by a heavy rail resting upon vertical spindles and coming forward to form the arms.

Origin:
1945–50

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captain's chair

noun
a wooden armchair with a saddle seat and a low back that has vertical spindles 
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Captain-chair is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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