Morris chair

English

Etymology

The design was adapted by William Morris's firm, Morris & Company.

Noun

Morris chair (plural Morris chairs)

1. A kind of chair with a reclining back and moderately high armrests.
   • 1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:

     The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.