divan
noun
a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
divans
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pluralof divan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
Ms Busby alleges the two divans which made up the base of the bed were not properly fastened together and two "gliders" - or feet - were missing from the end of the bed.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2018
There are also informal interviews, with team personnel wrangling players inside the downtown Renaissance Riverview hotel, bringing them to divans, or folding tables, or a secluded nook behind a pair of grand pianos.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2018
And Offred muses that handmaid gatherings look like "paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard."
From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2017
Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
