elbow chair

A'nt please you, will your ladyship enter our humble dwelling, and rest your ladyship in feyther's great cane bottom'd elbow chair with a high back.

From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous

De Callières, Governor of Montreal, commanded the left wing; De Vaudreuil the right; and De Frontenac, now 76 years of age, was carried, like Menschikoff at Alma, in the centre, in an elbow chair.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

There stood a large, broad-bottomed elbow chair at a table, on which was an empty tumbler, and a "Times" newspaper, and the room smelt powerfully of Stilton cheese.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

While you converse with lords and dukes, I have their betters here, my books; Fixed in an elbow chair at ease I choose companions as I please.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen

He found the night a favourable time for composition, and what he composed at night he dictated in the day, sitting obliquely in an elbow chair with his leg thrown over the arm.

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Augustine Birrell