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Windsor chair

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Windsor chair
n.
A wooden chair having a high spoked back, outward-slanting legs connected by a crossbar, and a saddle seat.
[After Windsor2, England.]
Windsor chair
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a simple wooden chair, popular in England and America from the 18th century, usually having a shaped seat, splayed legs, and a back of many spindles
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Noun1.Windsor chairWindsor chair - straight chair having a shaped seat and a back of many spindles
side chair, straight chair - a straight-backed chair without arms


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And how much more interesting did the spectacle become, when, starting into full life and animation, as a simultaneous call for 'Pickwick' burst from his followers, that illustrious man slowly mounted into the Windsor chair, on which he had been previously seated, and addressed the club himself had founded.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
The two tables put together in a corner, were, at length, converted into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons and repose.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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