Boston rocker
- noun
- /ˈbɔstən ˈrɑkər/
- Archaic
:
mecedora Boston
- The Boston rocker creaked gently as she rocked back and forth, enjoying the sunshine on her porch.
Examples
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The antique shop had a beautiful Boston rocker that reminded her of her grandmother's house.
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She saw her father in his armchair and Sam in the Boston rocker.
Fiction book (1995) -
He loves to relax in his Boston rocker while reading the newspaper every morning.
Synonyms
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A chair that moves back and forth on curved legs
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Morphology
Boston + rocker
The noun combines the place-name 'Boston' with 'rocker' (a rocking chair), so a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer it denotes a kind or style of rocking chair associated with Boston. Detailed historical or stylistic nuances (high spindle back, decorative panel) are not predictable from the words, but the basic referent is transparently derivable.
Etymology
Boston rocker comes from 19th-century Boston furniture. Local makers made a chair with a tall back of thin bars and a pretty top panel, and because the chair gently rocked people called it a rocker, so the name means that particular 'rocking chair' style.