rout chair

noun

A type of light chair designed to be easily moved, typically used at parties.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounrout chair (plural rout chairs)

plural rout chairs

  1. A type of light chair designed to be easily moved, typically used at parties.First known use 18th c.

    There was a cushion too in each armchair. All these he had taken and, with the help of the gilt rout chairs, light and easy to move, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains.

    1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 2, in Of Human Bondage
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