tablet-armed chair
- noun
- US
:
silla con mesa
- We replaced the old desks with modern tablet-armed chairs for better flexibility.
Examples
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The student sat in a tablet-armed chair during the lecture.
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She placed her laptop on the tablet-armed chair and started taking notes.
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The classroom was filled with tablet-armed chairs arranged in neat rows.
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Can you pass me that tablet-armed chair?
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The classroom was filled with tablet-armed chairs arranged in neat rows.
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The student sat in a tablet-armed chair during the lecture.
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We replaced the old desks with modern tablet-armed chairs for better flexibility.
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Morphology
tablet-armed + chair
The phrase is compositionally built: 'tablet-armed' means 'equipped with a tablet/writing surface' and combined with 'chair' yields 'a chair equipped with a (writing) tablet.' This follows a common adjective+noun / 'X-equipped' pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer (context clarifies the furniture sense of 'tablet'), so the expression is transparent.
Etymology
The noun tablet-armed chair comes from the simple image of a chair that is 'armed' with a small table, where one arm has a flat tablet for writing. So the name refers to a chair with a built-in 'writing surface'.