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deck chair
noun
- a folding chair, usually with arms and a full-length leg rest, commonly used for lounging on the decks of passenger ships.
Word History and Origins
Origin of deck chair1
Example Sentences
“Regulation is coming for these companies, and initiatives like this are just rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship,” he said.
You want to lead this man carefully away from the iPad, and put him on a deck chair somewhere in the sun.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
Throw that black cloak on the deck chair yonder over my head and shoulders.
She crossed to the fireplace and sank into a canvas deck-chair with her back to the sewing-machine.
My sister left me to shut all the windows, and I lay in my long deck chair and looked at the road.
Delia (settling herself comfortably in deck-chair L. of Belinda and lying in her arms).
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