deck chair
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- noun
- /dɛk tʃɛr/
- UK
:
tumbona
- After a long day at the beach, I relaxed in my deck chair with a cold drink in hand.
- sit in deck chairs
- reclining in deck chairs
- lounge in deck chairs
Examples
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Lou reclines in a deck chair, its plastic tubing stretched and dipping nearly to the ground.
Fiction book (2000) -
The top deck had outdoor spaces lined with deck chairs and covered by a roof, additional staterooms, and a saloon.
Fiction book (1992) -
You are going to sit on a deck chair and the music...
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Charles sat down in a deck chair and lit a cigarette.
Fiction book (1991) -
There's a deck chair out there, surrounded by the remains of breakfast.
Fiction book (2001) -
So I sat in my deck chair at the picnic and watched the little ones tumble around.
Fiction book (1990) -
Marvin lies on a deck chair, covered with a blanket, staring into nowhere.
Fiction book (1991) -
Or else they can be found sprawled on deck chairs in the sun, peering at the sky through their hands.
Fiction book (1992) -
The mother settles her enormous weight onto a deck chair, which creaks as she sits.
Fiction book (1999) -
Sitting in the deck chair, he gave Neddy a fraternal thrust of his elbow, square in the ribs.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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A light folding seat for sitting outside on grass
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A folding chair with a cloth seat for sitting on the beach
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A small folding chair you use outdoors, for example when camping
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A chair for sitting outside in a garden or on a lawn
A light folding chair with arms for sitting outdoors, often on a boat
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'deck chair' is directly interpretable as a chair associated with a deck: the meaning 'a chair used on a deck/patio' follows straightforwardly from 'deck' (platform) + 'chair' (seat). This noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will grasp the basic concept even if specific form details (folding frame, fabric) are not fully predictable.
Etymology
Deck chair comes from ships where people put simple folding chairs on the ship's deck to sit in the sun. Because these seats were easy to fold and carry, the name came to mean a 'folding outdoor chair' used on decks or in gardens.