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deck-chair
[deck n.1]
A folding chair, often with an adjustable leg-rest, used esp. on the deck of a ship as seating accommodation for passengers; a hammock chair. Also attrib.
1884E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) v. 69, I sit here in my ‘deck’ chair. 1886J. H. McCarthy Doom 9 The group comfortably arranged on deck-chairs. 1888W. S. Caine Trip round World i. 3 Ladies are grouped about in pleasant corners in easy deck-chairs. 1904Daily Chron. 6 Oct. 8/1 At eleven o'clock soup and crackers..are served and little deck-chair groups are formed. 1926Spectator 11 Sept. 372/2 To spend one's leisure lying on a deck-chair. 1937J. Betjeman Coll. Poems (1958) 33 A tennis court, a summerhouse, deckchairs by the walnut tree. 1958Times 23 Aug. 8/6 It is the weather and not the client that rules the days of the deck-chair attendant. |