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high-backed - having a high back; "a high-backed sofa"

backed - having a back or backing, usually of a specified type

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Of the two ladies, one was well advanced in years; but the high-backed oaken chair in which she sat, was not more upright than she.

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The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade.

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They sat down at the old ironing-table in the high-backed monkish chairs, and Mrs.

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