bentwood
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- noun
- /ˈbɛntˌwʊd/
- Specialized
- It was bare: gray board floor, bare bulb, a single bentwood chair.
- bentwood chair
- bentwood rocker
- bentwood furniture
Examples
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"Little lopsided," observed Batsford, who was sitting in an old bentwood rocker against a wall.
Fiction book (2000) -
From a Northwest Coast bentwood box, he takes skulls and other bones and ceremonially returns them to the river.
Academic text (2009) -
Harry, lifting his head, saw that there was a second bentwood chair sitting there.
Fiction book (2002) -
Roger noticed now that someone was seated in a bentwood rocker in the far corner.
Fiction book (1996) -
I need to spend some time sitting in these new polyvinyl bentwood rockers we got for the back patio.
Blog text (3) -
Raf leaned back in his lacquered bentwood chair.
Fiction book (1996) -
Thonet invented mass-produced bentwood furniture, and the German company is known for its design and production breakthroughs that revolutionized the furniture industry.
Blog text (26) -
It's a company that, perhaps enviably, now distributes the best-known names in seating design—from bentwood to Bauhaus to today's masters.
Blog text (26) -
Self wakes, pulls knees up, sets spine against pine clapboards, sups chicory brewed on oil-wick stove, wife eyes down awaits beside on bentwood chair.
Fiction book (1997) -
The unique design of the bentwood chair adds a touch of elegance to the living room.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bentwood comes from the simple parts bent ('curved') and wood ('wood'). It describes wood that is made soft with steam and then bent into smooth curves for things like chairs, so a bentwood item is wood that has been bent into shape.