Dante chair

Dante chair

noun Italian Furniture.
a chair of the Renaissance having two transverse pairs of curved legs crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
Also called Dan·tes·ca chair [dan-tes-kuh, dahn-tes-kah] .


Origin:
named after Dante

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