Windsor chair
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈwɪndzər tʃɛr/
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silla Windsor
- The simple black Windsor chair looked cozy around the white-clothed tables.
- original Windsor chair
- black Windsor chairs
- Windsor chair from the century
Examples
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Inside, I put her in a wooden Windsor chair and pushed the chair in front of the open refrigerator.
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The guard seats himself in a Windsor chair and looks us over.
Fiction book (1990) -
Laughing, they pulled out the old Windsor chairs and sat down.
Fiction book (1990) -
A pair of Philadelphia-style comb-back Windsor chairs caught Carl's eye and his imagination.
Fiction book (1998) -
And at Maureen, even though Jamie's wife was pushing her down onto a Windsor chair as if she thought Scarlett was one of her children to be ordered around.
Fiction book (1991) -
Clayton was no longer paying any attention to him, but Larry Alippi, who was sitting in front of him in a Windsor chair, was smiling at him with his eyes half-closed.
Fiction book (1997) -
Laughing, they pulled out the old Windsor chairs and sat down.
Synonyms
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1.0
A seat for one person with a back and legs
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'Windsor' (a proper name/place/family) plus 'chair' allows a B1 learner to infer this is a particular kind or style of chair associated with Windsor, but the specific structural features (turned spindles, solid seat, splayed legs) are not derivable from the constituents. Because the proper-name + noun pattern signals origin/style (partly informative) but does not transparently encode the detailed meaning, the item is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Windsor chair may come from Windsor, a town in England where makers first made this style for gardens and homes. Its back has many thin wooden rods called spindles set into a solid seat and spread-out legs, so the name now means this particular wooden 'chair'.