wing chair

Example Sentences

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Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

For her room at the 2019 Kip’s Bay Show House, designer Young Huh paired a pillowy 18th century Gustavian banquette with a hefty Italian marble-topped dining table and an antique wing chair.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2021

More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!” or grumble that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2021

This proves not to be true as she casually tells us, over tea in a wing chair, the creepy story of her upbringing by a mother who believed herself to be possessed.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

There were various other wooden chairs and rockers for the rest of the family to sit in, but only Aunt Rose sat in that brown leather wing chair.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland