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ladder-back en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ladderback.
   alt of ladderback
   • The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts; 2014, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel, page 238:
   • Clissett was a "badger" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s. 2003, Kevin P. Rodel, Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, page 39:
   • Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory. 1964, John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts:

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