saddle seat

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   a chair seat that is slightly concave and sometimes has a thickened ridge in the center

   “the saddle seat fitted his buttocks nicely”

   Broaderseat

Questions about saddle seat

What does saddle seat mean?

saddle seat means "a chair seat that is slightly concave and sometimes has a thickened ridge in the center".

Is saddle seat a common word?

saddle seat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.