Sheraton

[sher-uh-tn]

noun

Thomas,1751–1806, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.

adjective

of the style of furniture designed by Sheraton.

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Contemporary Examples of sheraton

As she ducked out of the Sheraton fundraiser, she met a group of women coming at her on the up escalator.
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David Freedlander
May 12, 2014
Then she blacked out the name of the woman who had spent the night at the Sheraton Hotel.
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Historical Examples of sheraton

I shall squander every penny on things Chippendale and Sheraton and Hepplewhite.
Athalie
Robert W. Chambers
The Sheraton furniture and the chintzes suited the style of her beauty.
The Explorer
W. Somerset Maugham
Then came the popularity of the designs of the Adam Brothers and Sheraton.
Chats on Household Curios
Fred W. Burgess
Also, I want someone who can tell a Sheraton piece from Empire.
Polly's Business Venture
Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Here, miss, she said; you know the Sheraton chiffonier in the drawing-room?
Girls of the True Blue
L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for sheraton

Sheraton

noun

Thomas. 1751–1806, English furniture maker, author of the influential Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791)

Sheraton

adjective

denoting furniture made by or in the style of Thomas Sheraton

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Word Origin and History for sheraton

Sheraton

severe style of late 18c. English furniture, 1883, from name of cabinetmaker Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). The family name is from a place in Durham, late Old English Scurufatun (c.1040), probably "farmstead of a man called Skurfa" (an old Scandinavian personal name). The hotel chain dates from 1937 and has no obvious direct connection.