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chaise longue
noun
ˈshāz-ˈlȯŋ 
ˈshez-
plural chaise longues also chaises longues
ˈshāz-ˈlȯŋ(z)
: a long reclining chair
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Furnishings include a Cassina chaise longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand; an Osvaldo Borsani side table; and vintage sconces by Luigi Caccia Dominioni.
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Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2025
Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson The Terrace: The pair of chaise longues are from Belgium.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
There’s a glamorous chaise longue smack in the middle of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s bathroom.
—Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
Before the play begins, the cast bops around together onstage, vaping and chilling on a blow-up chaise longue and sharing a Kool-Aid-like substance from a plastic gallon jug covered in Sharpie graffiti.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2025
Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson The Terrace: The pair of chaise longues are from Belgium.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 14 Jan. 2025
There’s a glamorous chaise longue smack in the middle of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’s bathroom.
—Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
Before the play begins, the cast bops around together onstage, vaping and chilling on a blow-up chaise longue and sharing a Kool-Aid-like substance from a plastic gallon jug covered in Sharpie graffiti.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Chaise longue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chaise%20longue. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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chaise longue
noun
: a long chair that one can lie on
Etymology
French, literally, "long chair," from chaise "chair" and longue "long"
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