| 单词 | wainscot chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswainscot chair wainscot chair n. a panel-back chair (see panel n.1 Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > chair with back > of specific type wainscot chair1663 Windsor chair1724 slat-back1891 comb-back1901 Windsor1901 wheel-back1902 hoop-back1905 ladder-back1908 spoon-back1909 Mendlesham chair1935 1663 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage Inventories Mid-Essex (1950) 95 One Wainsscott Chair. 1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 145 The wainscot chairs which figure in the early records were doubtless those made up—back, seats, and all—of wood, the wood being most invariably oak. 1891 I. W. Lyon Colonial Furnit. New Eng. v. 146 Wainscot chairs were quite common in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century. 1925 J. Penderel-Brodhurst & E. J. Layton Gloss. Eng. Furnit. 119 Panel-back or wainscot chair, a cumbrous high-seated oak chair with heavy legs, stretchers, and high wainscotted back, in use in Tudor and Jacobean times. 1978 P. Van Greenaway Man called Scavener i. 11 A long passage lined with Pembrokes, a Wainscot chair, a rare Caquetoire. < as lemmas |
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