Meanings
nounwing chair (plural wing chairs)
plural wing chairs
- A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section ISynonyms: ear chair, grandfather chair, wingback chair
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
Also see
Translations
French fauteuil à oreilles, bergère
- fauteuil à oreilleschair
- bergèrechair
German Ohrensessel
- Ohrensesselchair
Norwegian ørelappstol
- ørelappstolchair
Polish berżera
- berżerachair
Russian вольте́ровское кре́сло
- вольте́ровское кре́сло (volʹtérovskoje kréslo)chair
Swedish öronlappsfåtölj
- öronlappsfåtöljchair
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APA
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MLA
“wing chair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wing%20chair. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wing chair,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wing%20chair.
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