CONVERSATION CHAIR Definition & Meaning

conversation chair

noun

an English chair of the 18th century designed to be straddled facing the back of the chair with the elbows resting on the crest rail: an English imitation of the voyeuse.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of conversation chair¹

First recorded in 1785–95

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Again, the costly laced coats of the dandy of the 18th and early 19th centuries were so threatened by the ordinary form of seat that a “conversation chair” was devised, which enabled the buck and the ruffler to sit with his face to the back, his valuable tails hanging unimpeded over the front.

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