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straight-backed
or straight-back
[ streyt-bakt ]
adjective
- having a straight, usually high, back:
a straight-backed chair.
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Example Sentences
I mean, she was in this purple dress and he was straight backed.
From The Daily Beast
One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.
From Project Gutenberg
Letitia Prall sat on a straight-backed chair, erect and still; but looking like a leashed tiger, ready to spring.
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Sir John Meredith was sitting stiffly in a straight-backed chair by his library fire.
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And these eyeglasses were affixed to the bridge of Sir John Meredith's nose, as he sat stiffly in the straight-backed chair.
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Morley was ushered in and given one of the plain, straight-backed chairs with which the room was furnished.
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