chair seater
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From chair seat + -er.
Noun
chair seater (plural chair seaters)
- (historical) Someone whose job it is to make seats for chairs.
- 1976, Pamela Horn, Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Ltd, →ISBN, page 107:
- Among the women, five were employed as 'chair seaters', although for them lacemaking was the prime occupation.
See also
References
- “chair seater, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
