Definition of "deck chair" [deck• chair]

• A folding chair that usually has arms and a leg rest. (noun)

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• "Back on board his schooner and dozing in a deck chair under a three - months-old magazine, David Grief was aroused by a sobbing, Blubbering noise from overside."
• "A paperback, bookmarked halfwaythrough, lay in a deck chair facing the pond."
• "Leo Snyder and Quentin York wrestled each other in the water and Caroline Dale sat on Renny Williams’s lap on a deck chair and Melissa DeWhitt was putting lotion on Casey Chow’s back as she held up her long hair with one hand."