Chair

Chair

A chair is a raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs or could have a different shape.

Read more about Chair.

Famous quotes containing the word chair:

    “A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “This stable is a Prince’s court.
    This crib His chair of state;
    The beasts are parcel of His pomp,
    The wooden dish His plate.”
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    “My chair was nearest to the fire
    In every company
    That talked of love or politics,
    Ere Time transfigured me.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)