"ice-cream chair" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ice-cream chairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "ice-cream chair (plural ice-cream chairs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
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          "orig": "en:Chairs",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Marshall B. Davidson, Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 186",
          "text": "Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel, page 55",
          "text": "I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Georgette Beck, The Song of Sylvania Square, page 26",
          "text": "At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back."
      ],
      "id": "en-ice-cream_chair-en-noun-q4Xohybg",
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          "lightweight",
          "lightweight"
        ],
        [
          "armless",
          "armless"
        ],
        [
          "chair",
          "chair"
        ],
        [
          "circular",
          "circular"
        ],
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ],
        [
          "wire",
          "wire"
        ],
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ice-cream chair"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the use of this type of chair in ice cream parlors.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ice-cream chairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Chairs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Marshall B. Davidson, Elizabeth Stillinger, The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 186",
          "text": "Another innovative metal form was the “ice-cream” chair, so called because its portability and inexpensiveness made it practical for use in luncheonettes and ice-cream parlors everywhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel, page 55",
          "text": "I'd worn a pale yellow blouse and skirt for Grandma's service and now I looked like a Neiman-Marcus sack that had been dragged ostentatiously around the rest of the mall, stuffed with items from Women's Tall & Oversize, crumpled into an ice-cream chair at the food court, and dipped into a fountain while searching for pennies to throw.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Georgette Beck, The Song of Sylvania Square, page 26",
          "text": "At the small table he grasps its matching ice-cream chair opposite Cossetti's, sits and palms a worn deck of cards.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lightweight armless chair with a circular seat and wire back."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ice-cream chair"
}