bath chair
- noun
- Offensive
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- Adam saw the back of the bath chair first, its high, stiff back, its caning—the web it seemed to weave around his brother, trapping him in its seat, between its large wheels.
Examples
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For a person who has difficulty standing to shower, bath stools and bath chairs are the simplest devices.
Academic text (2001) -
She felt so grateful to be taken for a stroll in her bath chair by her caring attendant.
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He won't leave you in a bath chair.
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I hope I shan't be expected to wheel her about in a bath-chair.
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If I were to procure a bath chair of my own, we could take them both to the top of that lovely, grassy hill in the park...
Fiction book (2000) -
He's an invalid, keeping his bed half the time and the other half-hobbling about the house on a stick or being pushed about the grounds by the gardener in a bath chair.
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In some episodes, she's on her feet walking briskly along the coast; in others, she's being wheeled immobile in a bath chair through Leamington Spa.
Blog text (31) -
The bath chair allowed him to enjoy the beautiful seaside view without straining himself.
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At the spa, they provided a bath chair for guests who needed assistance moving around the grounds.
Synonyms
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1.4
A chair with wheels for people who cannot walk
How Mobile
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'bath' + 'chair' suggest a chair associated with bathing (or the spa town Bath), so learners can form a general idea of a chair-related object, but the specific historical sense — a wheeled conveyance for invalids pushed by an attendant — is not directly derivable from the constituents. A B1 learner who knows both words might misinterpret it as a seat used in a bath rather than a specialized wheelchair, so the relation is partial and requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Bath chair comes from old health resorts where a wheeled chair was used to carry people to a bath or along the seaside. That's why the phrase means a kind of 'wheelchair' used to move sick or older people.