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Roorkee chair en · NOUN

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1. (historical) An iconic, lightweight, and portable folding campaign chair designed for British military officers in the late 19th century.
   • A roorkee chair is not only very convenient for transport, as it takes to pieces when not in use, and is easily put up when required , but is exceedingly comfortable for tent use. 1912, James Dunbar-Brunton, Big Game Hunting in Central Africa, page 4:
   • My personal boy was also busy, trying to put together the Roorkee chair, and it was ludicrous to watch his struggles. 1930, W.H. Allen (publisher), “Fatuma and Mkatakhuni”, in The National Review, volume 95, page 96:
   • Then he strode back to his hut and slumped in his Roorkee chair and lit a cigarette. 1974, Manohar Malgonkar, A Toast in Warm Wine, page 130:
   • There was a roorkee chair, very hard, with long armrests, and in this I read. 2001, Philip Glazebrook, The Electric Rock Garden, page 137:
   • Paul Annerley's servant put out the folding table, the single roorkee chair, the drink box, and slung the chargul of water on a tripod to cool in the breeze. 1965, Susan Wingfield, The Goat Bag:
   • Kermit and I sat in our roorkee chairs and smoked. 1926, Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, page 127:

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