straight chair
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- noun
- /streɪt tʃɛr/
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silla recta
- The kitchen was clean and almost bare: a rough table, a few straight chairs.
- sitting on a straight chair
- back of a straight chair
- legs of straight chairs
Examples
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In the gloom, I could make out a couple of straight chairs and a TV on a stand.
Fiction book (1992) -
The rest of us sit like children in straight chairs along the walls.
Fiction book (1998) -
You sat down on the straight chair at the end of the bed.
Fiction book (1997) -
The girl sat in a straight chair.
Fiction book (1997) -
A table with a reading lamp was central, and two straight chairs were drawn up to it, facing.
Fiction book (1995) -
Then he took a straight chair within reach of my bed and waited silently for what seemed like hours.
Fiction book (1998) -
Seth pulled a straight chair out from the table and sat, muddled.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the room was a spool bed, a table next to it, a straight chair, and a chest of drawers.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hortense looked into the bedroom she had indicated and found the old woman sitting on a straight chair in the half-light, perhaps dozing or maybe gazing at the wall.
Fiction book (1996) -
The dining room had a large table surrounded by four straight chairs.
Synonyms
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A chair with a straight back and no arms placed beside a table
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chair with a straight back and no arms' is directly and compositionally derived from 'straight' (having no bend/being upright) modifying 'chair' (a single seat). This standard adjective+noun construction is cross-linguistically common and should be readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Straight chair comes from the simple image of a chair with a straight back and no arms. Because these chairs made people sit up 'straight', the phrase means a chair with a straight back and no arms.