| 单词 | great chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat chair great chair n. now historical an armchair, esp. one of an early American type (see quot. 1935).In many contexts difficult to distinguish from the simple sense ‘large chair’. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair armchair1585 elbow-chair1655 fauteuil1744 great chair1749 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > other armchairs great chair1749 porter's chair1806 sleepy-hollow chair1820 roundabout1834 Glastonbury chair1853 frowst1905 club chair1919 carver1927 1749 J. Jenkins Will 29 Dec. in Mayflower Descendant (1920) 22 159 My Sister Sarah Nye Six black Chairs a great Chair table & Cupboard. 1771 Trial Atticus before Justice Beau 18 See the long table is brought in, and set as far as the house will permit, from my great chair. 1784 S. Chapman in Med. Communications (Soc. Promoting Med. Knowl.) I. 294 I found him sitting in a great chair. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvi. 605 Jos was in his great chair dozing over Galignani. 1935 T. H. Ormsbee Early Amer. Furnit. Makers (new ed.) i. 29 The ‘great’ chair, a carved wainscot-constructed piece of furniture elaborately ornamented, was evidently only possible for a man of means. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 63/2 Armchairs resembling the Brewster or Great chairs of New York were known. 2002 S. Waters Fingersmith i. 16 Besides them was Mrs Sucksby in her great chair, a couple of babies in a cradle at her side. < as lemmas |
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