lounge chair

noun

1. a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lounge chair¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

He did not know that already there reclined in a lounge-chair on the lawn of the Exiles Club the man for whom he had been seeking.

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Forward on the narrow deck a girl sat in a lounge chair beneath a striped awning and gazed out over the water.

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After dinner Genya read, lying in her lounge chair, and I sat on the bottom step of the terrace.

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She lay, clad in a long white dress, in a big lounge-chair, with the silvery moonlight full upon her.

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Yarrow stretched himself in a lounge chair, and took up the subject again, speaking lazily and meditatively.

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