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Armchair   /ˈɑrmtʃˌɛr/   Listen
Armchair

noun
1.
Chair with a support on each side for arms.



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"Armchair" Quotes from Famous Books



... escorted the lady to the door, Thacher came back to his private office, he found the light keeper sitting in the armchair reserved for customers and pulling ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... herself into an armchair and crossed her knees. Long stood in the middle of the floor staring down at the woman he had held in his arms minutes ago, and his temples began throbbing. "What—what else is there to do?" he asked hoarsely. "This was my best chance to draw attention to the reality of our police state. ...
— The Deadly Daughters • Winston K. Marks
... armour on, though his shrunken form often seemed to rattle within it; and the chill blasts, as they entered the crevices, blew round and round him, and made him often wish for his armchair, and dressing-gown, and slippers, as does many another elderly gentleman, who would be far wiser if he kept by his own fireside, instead of allowing himself to be dragged about the world, in search of a very doubtful sort ...
— The Seven Champions of Christendom • W. H. G. Kingston
... guardsman stayed, with apparent impertinence, after the other guests had left the salons; and Madame Firmiani found him sitting quietly before her in an armchair, evidently determined to remain, with the pertinacity of a fly which we are forced to kill to get rid of it. The hands of the clock ...
— Madame Firmiani • Honore de Balzac
... of the night dreaming in his armchair, for the face of that woman brought before him a number of illustrious shades connected with many happy or terrible souvenirs, and he who had regretted his sleep on first arriving, now ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas


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