Also 7–8 armed-chair. [f. ARM sb.1, ARMED ppl. a.2] A chair with arms: see ARM sb.1 9.
1633. H. Cogan, Pinto’s Voy., lvi. 218. Born in Pallaquins or Arm-chairs.
1693. Lond. Gaz., mmdcccxlv/2. The Commissioners went to the two Armed Chairs placed for them.
1795–9. Southey, Sonn., xv. Wks. II. 97. Seated in thy great arm’d chair.
c. 1840. Eliza Cook, The Old Arm-Chair.
| I love it, I love it, and who shall dare | |
| To chide me for loving that old arm-chair? |
1878. Browning, Poets of Croisic, xcvii. Arm-chair moodiness.
