Definition of recliner
: a chair with an adjustable back and footrest
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Additional features include a glass elevator, gourmet kitchen with adjacent breakfast area, summer kitchen, gym and a movie theater with leather recliners and surround sound system.
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Bramante settled into a black leather recliner for an interview at her house overlooking Great Bay on New Hampshire’s seacoast.
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First Known Use of recliner
1882
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: a comfortable chair which has a back that can lean back at an angle
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