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  • noun Plural form of chairback.

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Examples

  • The birds cause movement here, too – making the shepherd hooks and chairbacks bounce as they land and take off, while they wait for a turn in the fountain.

    Movement « Fairegarden 2008

  • When the dinner bell rings, A-listers will put in appearances at the nouveau-African tangerine -- don't even think of capitalizing that T-- to hobnob with Sen. John McCain, whose face will be silk-screened onto chairbacks in honor of the occasion.

    Periscope 2008

  • Cut up, it could make pillow covers, quilt tops, antimacassars for chairbacks, any number of useful things.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • "All right," Lowe said, leaning forward with his hands on the chairbacks.

    License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001

  • Cut up, it could make pillow covers, quilt tops, antimacassars for chairbacks, any number of useful things.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Much the same occurred even with the needlework, the Queen and Princess finished some chairbacks, which they wished to send to the Duchesse de Tarente; but the officials considered that the patterns were hieroglyphics, intended for carrying on a correspondence, and ordered that none of the Princesses work should leave the Temple.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • The clock clucked like a fat hen; the cut-away chairbacks seemed almost as if they could speak; he knew every cup upon the table; the fireplace smiled a whitewashed welcome; branches were stuck all along the walls, and gave off fragrance; juniper sprigs were strewn on the floor in token of holiday.

    Chapter IX 1917

  • A large fire was burning halfway along the wall, between the chairbacks and the door.

    A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay 1910

  • "Off of the glass bottles and things in the bathrooms and off of the hair brushes and such things, an 'off of the envelopes of letters, an' off the chairbacks an 'any polished wood surfaces, an' I got lots of 'em in both houses, an 'the police people picked out the best an' cleanest an 'fixed 'em up, an' there you are!"

    Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902

  • She sends Tibbetts over to scrub and wipe off those same brushes, also the mirrors, chairbacks and all such possible evidence.

    Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902

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