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love seat

American  

noun

  • love seats
    plural
  1. a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.


love seat British  

noun

  1. a small upholstered sofa for two people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of love seat

First recorded in 1900–05

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Bethany: We did reject our first velvet love seat, princesses-like, as too soft.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Twenty-five minutes after the first contraction and two pushes later, she delivered her daughter, alone, on her tan love seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

When I was young—five, maybe six—I was sure I'd levitated between the sofa and love seat of my childhood home, crashing to the ground when the clop of my father's footsteps severed my concentration.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022

For example, to reupholster an 18th-century-style camelback Chippendale love seat with rolled arms with Greenhouse Fabrics B7870 teal fabric, prices ranged from $1,150 to $2,368.

From Washington Post ● May 3, 2022

And not like the one Braviary practiced on at the sanctuary, a swing as wide as the love seat that Axel and Lark and Ray are on.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

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