English

Noun

steamer chair ‎(plural steamer chairs)

1. A folding chair like a deck chair but sturdier, with wooden support rather than canvas.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.