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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bed-chair.

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Examples

  • Rooms usually have a TV, a chair-bed for the father or partner, and bathtubs to use during labor and afterward.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • Rooms usually have a TV, a chair-bed for the father or partner, and bathtubs to use during labor and afterward.

    Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010

  • Zyarulla salaamed profoundly; and Desmond, dropping with fatigue, flung himself, even as he was, on to a chair-bed in the adjoining dressing-room, and slept the dreamless sleep of exhaustion.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • Captain Lenox is in Baby's nursery; and we can shut off the dressing-room for you, if you can manage with a chair-bed.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • But now she felt cared for as she looked round the low room with its chair-bed and little dressing-table hung with pink glazed calico.

    Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

  • "Please to see that the chair-bed in my dressing-room is moved into your mistress's bed-room," said the Captain.

    In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

  • At last he came, found all promising, and having bundled up his small patient, carried her, with Frank's help, in her chair-bed to the ox-sled, which was drawn to the next door, and Miss Jill landed in the Boys Den before she had time to get either cold or tired.

    Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

  • Jill could hardly lie still when she heard the roll of another chair-bed coming down the hail, its passage enlivened with cries of

    Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902

  • From room to room he rushed, but found only two rooms on the ground floor furnished -- a sitting-room, which had been the original dining-room, while in the study was a chair-bed, most probably where Pietro slept.

    The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime William Le Queux 1895

  • "Please to see that the chair-bed in my dressing-room is moved into your mistress's bedroom," said the Captain.

    The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play 1887

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