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Definition of "wing chair" [wing chair]

  • An armchair with a high back from which project large, enclosing side pieces. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wing chair" in a sentence
  • "Aaron Stemple, sitting with a ledger and a bundle of financial reports in the wing chair in the small bedroom, listened to the plashing of rain and the moan of the wind and wasn't surprised that Lottie had not come up from town that day."
  • "My parents and Babci bumped into each other as they fumbled into their coats and went and called Mrs. Zak from down the street to come over and sit in the wing chair between the aquarium kit and the official Junior Olympic bobsled."
  • "For the occasion, our friend George Partel built a platform, and on it we placed a wing chair draped in velvet and surrounded by flowers."
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