chair days

English

Noun

chair days pl (plural only)

(obsolete) Days of repose and old age.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
  Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,
  To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve
  The silver livery of advised age,
  And in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
  To die in ruffian battle?

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