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Farthingale chairs

Scope note

Term of convenience for a type of Elizabethan chair with a wide but not very deep seat, low back, and no arms. Term may have been coined under the assumption that chairs were designed to accommodate the wide, hooped dresses called farthingales.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300077236

Broader Terms used

backstools

Equivalent Terms used

farthingale chair

Created

13yrs ago

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