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English
Drawings of a flap seat in raised and lowered positions.
1843, Albert Richard Smith, “The Bureau Drawer”, in The Wassail-Bowl, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, pages 115–116:
And be it enacted that […] no person […] presume to wish to go out for ginger-beer or oysters between the acts, to the annoyance of the nine rows of audience behind him, and the especial discomfiture of the fat old gentleman with the child on his knees, who sits on the flap-seat by the box-door.
1889, George H. Luce, chapter 3, in Our Pilgrimage, Milwaukee: Young Churchman, page 93:
Entering the vast edifice, capable of seating many thousands of people, you are directed, if a stranger, to sit on a flap-seat attached to the end of the regular pews in the aisle until the owners or usual occupants are all seated, and then shown to your place.
The taxi got too tight. Ray’s knees jammed sideways by Leopold’s suitcase, which had been moved to let down the flap seat, bulked between the children;
1973, Raymond Harold Sawkins (as Colin Forbes), Target Five, New York: Dutton, Chapter 14, p. 191,
Behind the pilot Kramer clung nervously to the flap seat he was perched on: he hated flying, and this had been a very rough ride.
2003, Sue Rann, chapter 5, in Looking for Mr Nobody, Harpenden: No Exit, page 63:
One [door] was open, revealing a grey metal box of a room equipped with a prison-style hole-in-the-floor toilet, a hinged plastic flap seat where he piled his clothes, and a dingy hospital bed with one threadbare blanket.
1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New York: Simon and Schuster, Book 4, p. 273:
After several minutes, Liebknecht stood barefoot in a suit of long winter underwear. Some of its buttons were missing and the flap seat was baggy from too much laundering.
1970, Winston M. Estes, chapter 9, in Another Part of the House,, New York: Avon, published 1978, page 129:
They wrapped themselves up to their eyes in thick sweaters, heavy shirts, wool socks and long union suits with flap seats.
1988, Norma Fox Mazer, chapter 19, in Silver, New York: Avon, published 1989, page 107:
Grant put on an oversized flannel nightshirt and fuzzy elephant slippers. Asa had baggy red footies with a flap seat. Even Patty wore old pj’s.
