English

Alternative forms

• elbowchair
• elbow-chair

Noun

elbow chair ‎(plural elbow chairs)

1. A chair with long armrests for the elbows.
   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, II:

     she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.

   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XII:

     Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her [...].

   • 2011, Alan Bennett, "Baffled at a Bookcase", London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

     The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.