Meanings
nounMorris chair (plural Morris chairs)
plural Morris chairs
- A kind of chair with a reclining back and moderately high armrests.
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123
Origin
The design was adapted by William Morris's firm, Morris & Company.
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APA
Morris chair. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morris%20chair
MLA
“Morris chair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morris%20chair. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Morris chair,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morris%20chair.
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