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settee
[ set-tee ]
noun
- a seat for two or more persons, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered.
settee
/ sɛˈtiː /
noun
- a seat, for two or more people, with a back and usually with arms
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Origin of settee1
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Example Sentences
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.
She avoided his ardent gaze, but he moved to the settee beside her and looked into the bewitching face.
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