slipper chair

plural slipper chairs

1. USAn upholstered chair with a low seat and a high back.

   She moved over to a slipper chair and put her head back against a white cushion that lay along the back of the chair against the wall.

   1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, pages 241–2

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   I was intellect itself, weighing the possibility of blocking the door with the dresser and bed, surveying the room for weapons – the elegant old hat-rack, the slipper-chairs.

   1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 48