cane chair

noun

1. a chair, the back and seat of which are made of interlaced strips of cane.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cane chair¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

The cane chair on the left is of walnut, and the one in the centre, carved and gilt, is a French adaptation of a Flemish design.

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This pretty cane chair for my good man was his handiwork, and these baskets he made for me.

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Colvin, sitting back in a cane chair, was contemplating the picture before him in the most complacent state of satisfaction.

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He was seated on a cane chair under a clump of whispering bamboos, which are giant grasses as tall and as strong as trees.

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At last Sylvia got up from the hard cane chair on which she had been sitting.

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