Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Chair-days.

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Chair.

Chair of St. Peter (The).

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Chair-days.

Old age.

“I had long supposed that chair-days, the beautiful name for those days of old age … was of Shakespeare’s own invention … but this is a mistake … the word is current in Lancashire still.”—Trench: English Past and Present, v.

“In thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus

To die in rufflan battle.”

Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., act v. 2.

Chair.

Chair of St. Peter (The).

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