basket chair

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English

A painting of a girl sitting in a basket chair.

Noun

basket chair (plural basket chairs)

  1. A chair in which the seat and back are made of wickerwork.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      Instead of answering, Professor Challenger entered, shook hands with myself and Lord John, bowed with ponderous insolence to Professor Summerlee, and sank back into a basket-chair, which creaked and swayed beneath his weight.