HIGH-BACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-backed mean? 

• HIGH-BACKED (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-BACKED has 1 sense:

1. having a high back

  Familiarity information: HIGH-BACKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-BACKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a high back

Context example:

a high-backed sofa

Similar:

backed (having a back or backing, usually of a specified type)

 Context examples 

At one side of this fire, in a high-backed oak chair, sat a lady, her face turned towards the door.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What a high-backed pew!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of a sudden, however, he caught a quick shimmer from the corner of a high-backed bancal in front of him, and, shifting a pace or two to the side, saw a white slender hand, which held a mirror of polished silver in such a way that the concealed observer could see without being seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)