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n. A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.
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A chaise longue (; , "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs.
In modern French the term chaise longue can refer to any long reclining chair such as a deckchair. A literal translation in English is "long chair". In the United States the term lounge chair is also used to refer to any long reclining chair. In the United States, chaise longue is nearly always written and pronounced as "chaise lounge", a 19th-century folk-anagrammatic adaptation of the term.
The chaise longue has traditionally been associated with psychoanalysis and many psychoanalysts continue to keep chaise longues in their offices for use in psychotherapy.
Chaise Longue - LC4 is a chaise longue designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier and French architect Charlotte Perriand.
Usage examples of "chaise longue".
Bemadette came over and pushed the wheelchair and its container of oxygen while he carried Laure to the plush chaise longue and carefully placed her on it.
He sprawled back against the armrest of the chaise longue, and slurped the rest of his beer.
I didn't even bother to change out of my garden-party dress, but forced myself to sit on the chaise longue and wait patiently.
They reached the open doorway and as I turned to look, the steps became soundless as the shockingly bandaged man slowly crossed the great rug toward a chaise longue.
She heaved herself up from the chaise longue on which she was reclining.
The chamber was ornate, but very small, and aside from the table and a pair of oval-backed chairs, held only a luxuriously padded green-velvet chaise longue.
Robert stretched out on a chaise longue and pulled Evie down on top of him.
Slick ordered the two of them, and sprawled onto a chaise longue flanked by a glass-topped cocktail table.