ribbed-back

Updated: May 25, 2025

The furniture was almost in keeping: roomy settees, broad, plain, ribbed-back chairs, with faded worked covers, the task of fingers crumbled into dust, heavy bookcases loaded with proportionably ponderous or curiously quaint volumes, and mirrors, with their frames like coffins covered with black velvet and relieved by gilding.

Sarah Tytler - Girlhood and Womanhood: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes