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ladder-back chair

n. a chair with a ladder-back [syn: ladder-back]

Usage examples of "ladder-back chair".

There was one ladder-back chair by the door and a washstand with a china jug and basin.

Sighing, Min took Logain's arm and led him to the table, sat him down on a rough bench and took a shaky ladder-back chair herself.

Sighing, Mm took Logain's arm and led him to the table, sat him down on a rough bench and took a shaky ladder-back chair herself.

The sink made an enormous crashing noise as it crushed a ladder-back chair before thumping heavily on the wooden floor.

Reluctantly, Paul let his field of vision widen to include the other side of the room, where Anita sat on a ladder-back chair before the cherry breakfront that concealed the laundry console.

It was as small and spartan as a monk's cell, furnished with nothing more than a ladder-back chair, a table and a four-post bed with a fatigued mattress.

His ladder-back chair, the only other piece of furniture in the room, appeared rickety, but someone had strengthened it with rawhide lashings.

A crack of displaced air heralded the sudden appearance of a ladder-back chair in the far corner of the dining room.

He had a washstand of his very own, a ladder-back chair that was not too unsteady, a sturdy stool, and a table big enough to hold a plate and cup and a pair of decent brass lamps.