Roorkee chair

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Roorkee chair (plural Roorkee chairs)

  1. (furniture, historical) An iconic, lightweight, and portable folding campaign chair designed for British military officers in the late 19th century.
    • 1912, James Dunbar-Brunton, Big Game Hunting in Central Africa, page 4:
      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.
    • 1926, Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, page 127:
      Kermit and I sat in our roorkee chairs and smoked.
    • 1930, W.H. Allen (publisher), “Fatuma and Mkatakhuni”, in The National Review‎[1], volume 95, page 96:
      My personal boy was also busy, trying to put together the Roorkee chair, and it was ludicrous to watch his struggles.
    • 1965, Susan Wingfield, The Goat Bag:
      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.
    • 1974, Manohar Malgonkar, A Toast in Warm Wine, page 130:
      Then he strode back to his hut and slumped in his Roorkee chair and lit a cigarette.
    • 2001, Philip Glazebrook, The Electric Rock Garden, page 137:
      There was a roorkee chair, very hard, with long armrests, and in this I read.
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