rout chair

English

Noun

rout chair (plural rout chairs)

1. A type of light chair designed to be easily moved, typically used at parties. [from 18th c.]
   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 2, in Of Human Bondage:

     There was a cushion too in each armchair. All these he had taken and, with the help of the gilt rout chairs, light and easy to move, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains.