deckchairn.

Etymology: 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 attributive.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair

beach chair1878

hammock chair1881

deckchair1884

camp-chair1885

Savonarola chair1887

Roorkee chair1905

safari chair1913

picnic chair1920

director's chair1922

Roorkee1936

transat1968

1884 E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) v. 69 I sit here in my ‘deck’ chair.

1886 J. H. McCarthy Doom 9 The group comfortably arranged on deck-chairs.

1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World i. 3 Ladies are grouped about in pleasant corners in easy deck-chairs.

1904 Daily Chron. 6 Oct. 8/1 At eleven o'clock soup and crackers..are served and little deck-chair groups are formed.

1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 372/2 To spend one's leisure lying on a deck-chair.

1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew 17 A tennis court, a summerhouse, deckchairs by the walnut tree.

1958 Times 23 Aug. 8/6 It is the weather and not the client that rules the days of the deck-chair attendant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	deckchair
释义	deckchairn. Etymology: 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > folding chair beach chair1878 hammock chair1881 deckchair1884 camp-chair1885 Savonarola chair1887 Roorkee chair1905 safari chair1913 picnic chair1920 director's chair1922 Roorkee1936 transat1968 1884 E. Nesbit Let. in D. L. Moore E. Nesbit (1933) v. 69 I sit here in my ‘deck’ chair. 1886 J. H. McCarthy Doom 9 The group comfortably arranged on deck-chairs. 1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World i. 3 Ladies are grouped about in pleasant corners in easy deck-chairs. 1904 Daily Chron. 6 Oct. 8/1 At eleven o'clock soup and crackers..are served and little deck-chair groups are formed. 1926 Spectator 11 Sept. 372/2 To spend one's leisure lying on a deck-chair. 1937 J. Betjeman Continual Dew 17 A tennis court, a summerhouse, deckchairs by the walnut tree. 1958 Times 23 Aug. 8/6 It is the weather and not the client that rules the days of the deck-chair attendant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1884
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