Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ice-cream chair

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: ice-cream chair
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.

Example Sentences

"Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere."
"I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw."
"At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards."

Etymology

From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.

Inflected Forms

ice-cream chairs (plural)

Questions

What does ice-cream chair mean?: A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back.
Where does ice-cream chair come from?: From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.

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