wing chair

wing chair (plural wing chairs)

1. A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:

     He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

• ear chair
• grandfather chair
• wingback chair