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armchair

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ She sat squarely in a big armchair and looked at him. ▪ Senators sit in big armchairs at mahogany desks and bat around millions of dollars. ▪ She looked beautiful but fragile, tucked into one of the big ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Armchair may refer to: Armchair (furniture) , a chair with arm rests Armchair nanotube , a carbon nanotube with chiral symmetry Armchair, a sitting sex position Armchair (bus company) , a bus operator in London "Armchair", a song by Avail from their 1996 ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also arm-chair , 1630s, from arm (n.1) + chair ; adjective sense in reference to "criticism of matters in which the critic takes no active part" is from 1886. Another old name for it was elbow-chair (1650s).

Usage examples of armchair.

On the dressing table, ably guarded by a dark Regency armchair cushioned in yet another floral, sat an assemblage of antique silver-hair accessories and crystal perfume flacons, the grouping flanked by two small lamps, everything centered around a gold Empire vanity mirror.

A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near the window.

Kells sat in one of the big armchairs near the central table and Beery sat on the edge of the table.

There was old Bick cursing for all he was worth, and a little red-faced buffer puffing out his cheeks in an armchair.

Number 47 was on the fifth floor, a commonplace room with an iron bed, a washbasin, a bidet, a dilapidated armchair, and a chest of drawers.

A gleam of almost the same color came from the plastic armchair, where her discarded bikini lay.

John Bittle settled himself comfortably in his armchair, pulled an ash stand to a convenient position, and continued the leisurely smoking of his cigar.

Watched and smiled at by Mary, Mrs Botham limped back to her seather inviolable armchair, wedged into the corner by the fire with toy flames.

When Albert returned to his mother, he found her in the boudoir reclining in a large velvet armchair, the whole room so obscure that only the shining spangle, fastened here and there to the drapery, and the angles of the gilded frames of the pictures, showed with some degree of brightness in the gloom.

Then she pokes the fire, draws a little buhl table close up to the hearth, spreads a white cloth, sets out the plates, puts the spoons by them, and enchanted, impatient, with flushed complexion, leans back in an armchair.

Burly sat in a cathedra chair in one of his smaller rooms of audience with Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, seated in a lower-backed armchair across an inlaid table from him.

Monsieur Chabot hung up his coat and came into the kitchen, taking his customary place in the armchair.

Jim flared its cloggy nostrils at me and lowered its front from the overstuffed armchair.

The few old members of the Cosmonaut Families who still lived in the castle had made their way through to the front hall, and set themselves down in armchairs in a loose arc around the fireplace.

Now in Cush she sat on one of the armchairs in the kitchen and wondered if they had forgotten about her as the news ended and then the break for advertisements ended and the music for the show began and Gay Byrne appeared.