英和和英

名詞

ladder-back (複数形 ladder-backs)

1. Alternative form of ladderback
   • 1964, John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts:

     Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory.

   • 2003, Kevin P. Rodel, ‎Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, page 39:

     Clissett was a "badger" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s.

   • 2014, Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel, page 238:

     The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts;