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basket chair

noun

  1. a wicker chair the arms of which are a forward continuation of the back.


basket chair

noun

  1. a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of basket chair1

First recorded in 1625–35
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Caulfield could paint the surfaces and spaces of modern life like nobody else, from flock wallpaper to stainless steel, from the textures of fibreglass and woodgrain to the stiff tendrils of a dying spider plant and the weave of a basket chair.

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They did it at Ormsgill's bidding, and left him sitting in a basket chair in a big, cool room, after which his host brought in a few cigars and a flask of wine.

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That lady sat somewhat stiffly facing him in a big basket chair, while her daughter lay close by in one of canvas with her eyes also fixed upon the man languidly.

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Her face was quietly tranquil, and the pose she had fallen into in the big basket chair was, if not quite unstudied, a singularly graceful one.

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It was a few days after the Palestrina had sailed when Dom Clemente once more sat behind the pillars in a basket chair looking thoughtfully at his unlighted cigar.

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