causeuse
Americannoun
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causeuses
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of causeuse
1835–45; < French, equivalent to caus ( er ) to chat ( see causerie) + -euse -euse
Example Sentences
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She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
The queen sat in a low causeuse in her tiny library relating to the Marquise de Gange the ominous occurrences of the morning.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis
I place the science of the countess's management of her husband as far above the peevish, arid virtues as the satin of a causeuse is superior to the Utrecht velvet of a dirty bourgeois sofa.
From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de
The second seat of the causeuse being unoccupied, Redgrave hereupon took possession of it.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
She rustled away, and Mrs. Rolfe sank back on to the causeuse from which she had newly risen.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
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