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Definition of Easy chair

1. Noun. A comfortable upholstered armchair.

Definition of Easy chair

1. Noun. A comfortable chair, often well-upholstered; a lounge chair. ¹

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Literary usage of Easy chair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"AT every public amusement such as those "Г which we have been speaking an Easy Chair or any other spectator naturally observes the audience as well as the ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"“The Devil sits in his easy chair.”—Who was the author of e.satire on English politics, beginning: “The Devil sits in his easy chair, Sipping his sulphur ..."

3. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"Turned Easy-Chair, 1700-10 65 508. Easy-Chair, about 1725 65 509. ... Easy-Chair, 1725-50 67 513. Easy-Chair, third quarter eighteenth century 68 514. ..."

4. The Poets and Poetry of America by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1856)
"They are chiefly lyrical, and the author displays in them THE FARMER SAT IN HIS easy chair. THE farmer sat in his easy chair, Smoking his pipe of clay, ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"the easy chair gave him a copy of Miss Fuller's paper in the Tribune. It was a bright, and to the easy chair a wonderfully happy hour. ..."

6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1873)
"The easy chair trembled on it heard such musical blasphemy in the very adytum of the ... Rut as the easy chair listened to the music and watched the other ..."

7. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Or laugh and shake in R.' easy chair D. \. аз One trill shall harmonize joy, grief, and r. D. iv. ... Stretch'd on the r. of a too easy chair D. iv. ..."

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