| 单词 | turkey chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTurkey chair b. With various substantives or adjectives indicating the nature, material, purpose, etc., as bed-chair, bedroom chair, camp chair, cane chair, compass chair, folding chair, garden chair, hall chair, kitchen chair, leather chair, library chair, lobby chair, obstetrical chair, office chair, rocking chair, swinging chair, Turkey chair, wheelchair. Also armchair n., Bath-chair n. at Bath n.2 Compounds 3, curule chair n. at curule adj. 1, easy chair n., elbow-chair n., great chair n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 286 A compasse chayre, halfe a circle. Hemicyclus. 1711 R. Steele Spectator 52 ⁋3 An easy chair..at the upper End of the Table. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶4 The great Elbow-chair which stands at the upper End of the Table. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. 220 Easy Leather-Chairs made..with..Springs. 1790 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 477 I..found him..sitting in a great chair. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 539 Having requested the indulgence of an easy chair at the sittings of the French Academy..the King, instead of one easy chair, sent forty to the Academy. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd II. iv. i. 12 He sat in the swinging chair. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii A servant passes, pushing through the crowd a shabby wheel-chair. Turkey chair Turkey chair n. (a) a chair of Turkish make; (b) the sphenoid bone (of the horse); also Turkey-chair bone. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > head > bone or vein of plate vein1566 Turkey-chair bone1683 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. viii. 122 The Bone called the Turkey chair. [Cf. v. iv. 204 The Sphenoides, or Wedge-like Bone..hath several Processes, of which..the internal are four, standing out like four feet of a Table or Chair, which..form the Sella Turcica.] 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. ix. 124 Near the side of the Turky-chair-bone they are inoculated with the second or greater branches of the fifth pair. 1684 in Archæol. Cambr., Orig. Doc. (1877) 7 In the greate Parlour..twelve turky chaires one table and Carpett. < as lemmas |
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