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Definition of Reclining chair
1. Noun. An armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reclining Chair
Literary usage of Reclining chair
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1898)
"Train leaving Hartford at 12.40 PM connects at Campbell Hall with the fast Chicago
express made up of Pullman Sleepers and Elegant reclining chair Cars via ..."
2. Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses and how to combat it: Prize Essay by Sigard Adolphus Knopf (1901)
"A reclining chair is placed with its back in the interior, and the whole ...
During the day the lounge or reclining chair should be moved near the open ..."
3. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"However, as I write it is announced that he has been up in a reclining-chair for
an hour without a rise in either pulse or temperature. ..."
4. Lectures on the Pathology and Treatment of Lateral and Other Forms of by William Adams (1882)
"... combine with them partial recumbency, ie, lying down in the reclining-chair
four or six hours a-day, which I consider to be a direct curative means. ..."
5. A Treatise on Artificial Limbs with Rubber Hands and Feet by A. A. Marks (1896)
"350 represents an Invalid reclining chair. ... 355 reclining chair, the difference
in the construction being in the style of chair used. ..."
6. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"Can be used as an Invalid or reclining chair, or a Bed or Hammock, and permits
of five different degrees of inclination, packing in RU exceedingly small ..."
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