/skah bel"oh/ ; It. /zgah bel"law/ , n. , pl. sgabellos , It. sgabelli /-lee/ . Ital. Furniture.
a side chair of the Renaissance, consisting of a small seat, usually octagonal, often resting on a cubical part and supported either on two carved planks set transversely on edge or on three legs, with a back formed from a carved plank.
[ 1955-60; scabellum footstool, var. of scabillum, dim. of scamnum stool, bench ( scabh-nom ) ]