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A nursing chair is a low seated partially upholstered chair used at least since Victorian times for a woman's use while nursing an infant. This chair form was particularly popular in England and found primarily in upper class homes. The types of wood most frequently used were oak, rosewood or walnut. The seat is often sprung and can be button decorated or adorned with a circumferential braid or pair of braids. The chair legs are frequently of a cabriole style or a straight-legged spindle design.
Usage examples of "nursing chair".
One of her breasts bobbed into view, and she reached out for Jemmy, sitting down with him in the nursing chair by the fire.
Beth sat on the Edwardian nursing chair by the hotel room window and relived her journey in the back of the laundry van.
That night my mother never slept, but sat all through it in her nursing chair, brooding over I know not what.