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friar's chair

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frai⋅le⋅ro

[frahy-lair-oh; Sp. frahy-le-raw]
–noun, plural -le⋅ros [-lair-ohz; Sp. -le-raws] . Spanish Furniture.
an armchair of the Renaissance, having a leather seat and a leather back stretched between plain wooden members and having a broad front stretcher.
Also called friar's chair.


Origin:
< Sp: lit., of, belonging to a friar, deriv. of fraile friar
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