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)

    “Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

    “I had a chair at every hearth,
    When no one turned to see,
    With ‘Look at that old fellow there,
    ‘And who may he be?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)