settee

[ set-tee ]
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noun
  1. a seat for two or more persons, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered.

Origin of settee

1
First recorded in 1710–20; perhaps variant of settle2

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How to use settee in a sentence

  • An with that I laid down on the settee, an felt orful bad, an the more I tho't about it, the wus I felt.

  • "It's good of you to drop in," he said, after he had fixed me in his own comfortable chair and drawn up the settee for himself.

  • Drawing the settee closer to the light, he opened the great volume across his knees and adjusted his spectacles.

  • I have forgotten a companionable cat who each morning takes her seat on the long leather settee beside me and shares my crescents.

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • She avoided his ardent gaze, but he moved to the settee beside her and looked into the bewitching face.

    Dope | Sax Rohmer

British Dictionary definitions for settee

settee

/ (sɛˈtiː) /


noun
  1. a seat, for two or more people, with a back and usually with arms

Origin of settee

1
C18: changed from settle ²

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