What is "wing chairs"

Usage examples of "wing chairs".

A pair of Queen Anne wing chairs stood on tiptoe before the fireplace.

There were overstuffed sofas and wing chairs and a great fireplace which was now dead and silent, a birch log thrown across the andirons - a real log, no gas.

Of course he invited us into the library and we accepted the invitation, and we settled into the big leather wing chairs that were so comfortably arranged everywhere, and Stirling told the agreeable little housekeeper that we didn't require anything, and then we were alone.

The two men had remained standing-she wondered how long they had been waiting for her to reappear-but one other figure was already there, sitting with her legs tucked up under her in one of the lesser wing chairs.

Then it had been a real curator's office, dusty and messy, filled with fossils and books, old Victorian wing chairs, Masai spears, and a stuffed dugong.

In addition, a comfortable leather sofa and, facing it, two leather wing chairs, with a smoked glass coffee table between, were clustered at one end of the compartment.