The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassiopeia \Cas`si*o*pe"ia\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.
Cassiopeia's Chair, a group of six stars, in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.
Usage examples of "cassiopeia's chair".
He sees, but we do not see, Cassiopeia's Chair, a constellation in the shape of an inverted W, the initial of his name.
There was Cassiopeia's Chair, Shakespeare's first name's drunken initial, but there were constellations he had not seen before.
We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance.
She knows them all: Cassiopeia's chair, Betelgeuse, Aldeberon, the teapot, the swan.
Every time I wanted to figure what was east or what was west it seemed to be noon, or cloudy, which was no help at all, or nighttime, and except for the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia's Chair, I was hopeless at stars, a failing which always disheartened Buddy Willard.