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.
AAT
300077236
backstools, upholstered joined
chairs, farthingale
chairs, imbranderers'
chairs, upholsterers'
imbranderers' chairs
joined backstools, upholstered
upholstered joined backstools
upholsterers' chairs
12yrs ago
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