A chair adapted for sitting or half reclining in in an easy posture, often furnished with arms and padded back.
1707. Farquhar, Beaux’ Strat., IV. i. Get my easie chair down stairs, put the gentleman in it.
1713. Guardian, No. 131 (1756), II. 188. Immersed in the luxury of an easy-chair.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 371. His host was confined by gout to an easy chair.
1881. Mrs. A. R. Ellis, Sylvestra, II. 65. He sunk, as if weighted, into an easy chair, pipe-and-bottle life.
