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Windsor Chair

Furnishings
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A wooden chair with a solid seat and slender spindles forming its back. It is a classic English and American design.

Detailed Definition
A Windsor chair is a wooden chair distinguished by turned legs, a solid seat, and thin spindles rising to support a curved back or rail. Its plain durability gives it strong historical and domestic associations. In verse, a Windsor chair may belong in a farmhouse kitchen, colonial inn, or ancestral dining room, where its worn arms and polished seat register generations of ordinary conversation and labor.
Example
Example in poetry:
In the Windsor chair, her mother sat straight-backed through every family argument; A Windsor chair can add historical or rustic character through its recognizable spindled back; “The old Windsor chair held the imprint of a body and the silence of a name”; A poet may contrast the chair's sturdy wooden construction with a fragile speaker seated in it
Additional Notes
Its recognizable spindled back and plain wood suit images of colonial homes, kitchens, and handmade durability. Compare the more ornate upholstered chair.
Also Known As
Windsor
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