A passage, route, or means of transport involving chairs; potentially a path where chairs are positioned or a metaphorical path to authority or leadership.
From 'chair' + 'way' (a path or route, from Old English 'weg'). This is an uncommon compound word that might refer to architectural spaces with chairs or metaphorical paths to leadership.
The word 'chairway' is so rare that most modern dictionaries don't include it—it's a linguistic fossil showing how people once tried to build compounds that language didn't ultimately need or use.
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