swivel-chair

See also: swivel chair and swivelchair

English

Noun

swivel-chair (plural swivel-chairs)

  1. Alternative form of swivel chair
    • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
      Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock , then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.
    • 2010, W.J. Burley, Wycliffe and the Scapegoat:
      A flat topped desk stood by the window; there was a swivel-chair upholstered in worn, black leather.
    • 2012, Margaret Pemberton, Zadruga:
      The gentleman he was facing, and whose name he did not know, swung his swivel-chair to the left so that he, too, could look down over the park.
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