planter's chair

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planter's chair (plural planter's chairs)

  1. A type of wooden one-person armchair with wickerwork backing, designed to be used in tropical climates.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 203:
      Then he snored gently, the dog clankingly searching for fleas beside the planter’s chair, unaware as yet of her booked passage to India.