chairback

plural chairbacks

1. The rear part of a chair that supports the sitter's back.

   Hair-brushes were arranged carefully on wither side of a clean comb, and a pair of recently pressed trousers lay over a chair-back.

   1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 176

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   Podson said nothing to that, but he undressed to examine his shirt and collar, and assure himself that they were still in presentable condition. He hung his coat over a chair-back and folded the crease in his pants for pressure under his mattress.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 191

   Nevertheless, the first thing I did after assuring myself that there were indeed no malicious persons or things lurking under the bed or elsewhere was to slip a chair-back under the door handle.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 15

   A new playing surface, a renovated seating bowl with 800 chairback seats, and enhanced ticketing and lobby areas are among the changes expected for the 2008-9 season.

   2008 April 10, The Associated Press, “St. John’s to Renovate Arena”, in New York Times