Meaning armchair
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armchair


also arm-chair, 1630s, from arm (n.1) + chair; adjective sense in reference to "criticism of matters in which the critic takes no active part" is from 1886. Another old name for it was elbow [..]
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Term applied to a wide variety of chairs with arms, to distinguish them from side chairs which have no arms.
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armchair


(n) chair with a support on each side for arms
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An armchair can be any chair with arms. However, there are two different kinds: the fauteuil, with open sides, and the bergère, with closed sides. (See Fauteuil and Bergère) Armoire: A tall standing w [..]
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