elbow chair

plural elbow chairs · alternative elbowchair · alternative elbow-chair

1. A chair with long armrests for the elbows.

   she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.

   1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II

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   […] Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her, […]

   1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 293

   The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.

   2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15