elbow-chair

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  1. Same as arm-chair. [Now rare.] The furniture … [consisted] of hangings made of old Genoa yellow damask, with a bed and elbow chairs of the same stuff, adorned with fringes of blue silk. Smollett, tr. of Gil Blas, x. 8. Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs. Cowper, Task, i. 87.

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