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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wing chair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barnabas leapt from the sofa and dashed after the biscuit that had skidded under a wing chair.
▪ He would be reading, and she would be sitting across from him in a wing chair.
▪ One large wing chair in an attractive pale pink fabric blends perfectly with the dual colour scheme.
▪ She knocked and opened the door and saw Patrick asleep in his wing chair.
▪ The big leather wing chair that usually faced the doorway in the library was turned around.
Wiktionary
wing chair

n. A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught

WordNet
wing chair

n. easy chair having wings on each side of a high back

Wikipedia
Wing chair

A wing chair (also, wing-back chair or wing-back) is an easy chair or club chair with "wings" mounted to the back of the chair, typically, but not always, stretching down to the arm rest. The purpose of the "wings" was to enclose the head or torso areas of the body in order to provide comfortable protection from drafts, and to trap the heat from a fireplace in the area where the person would be sitting. Hence, in historic times these are often used near a fireplace. Currently most examples of wing chairs are fully upholstered with exposed wood legs, but, many of the oldest wing chair examples have an exposed frame with padded cushions at the seat, arm rests, back and sometimes wings.

They were first introduced in England during the 1600s, and the basic design has remained unchanged since.

Though there are many types of wing chairs, there are two standard wing styles - the flat wing and the scroll wing. There are also bat wings and butterfly wings just to name a few. The length, depth, vertical position and shape of the wings may vary from chair to chair.

Usage examples of "wing chair".

Tante Cordelia waited in a large wing chair perhaps accidentally reminiscent of a throne.

They found Koko and Yum Yum on the blue velvet wing chair but not a hair of the kitten.