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Davenport

Davenport \Dav"en*port\, n. [From the name of the original maker.
--Encyc. Dict.] A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

A much battered davenport in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing.
--A. B. Edwards.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
davenport

"large upholstered couch," 1897, apparently named for the manufacturer. Earlier (1853) "a kind of small ornamental writing table." The proper name is attested from 12c., from a place in Cheshire (Old English Devennport).

Wiktionary
davenport

n. 1 A large sofa, especially a formal one. 2 A writing desk.

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Davenport, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 339
Housing Units (2000): 180
Land area (2000): 0.660761 sq. miles (1.711364 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.660761 sq. miles (1.711364 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12245
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.313312 N, 97.812490 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68335
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Headwords:
Davenport, NE
Davenport
Davenport, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 1924
Housing Units (2000): 913
Land area (2000): 1.563534 sq. miles (4.049535 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.061506 sq. miles (0.159300 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.625040 sq. miles (4.208835 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16450
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.160530 N, 81.602651 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33837
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Headwords:
Davenport, FL
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Davenport, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 261
Housing Units (2000): 92
Land area (2000): 0.124807 sq. miles (0.323249 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124807 sq. miles (0.323249 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18180
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.714074 N, 97.067749 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58021
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Headwords:
Davenport, ND
Davenport
Davenport, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 881
Housing Units (2000): 401
Land area (2000): 0.814052 sq. miles (2.108384 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.814052 sq. miles (2.108384 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19350
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.707463 N, 96.764583 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Davenport, OK
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Davenport, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 98359
Housing Units (2000): 41350
Land area (2000): 62.790723 sq. miles (162.627219 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.149889 sq. miles (5.568187 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 64.940612 sq. miles (168.195406 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19000
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.542982 N, 90.590745 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52802 52803 52804 52806 52807
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Headwords:
Davenport, IA
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Davenport, WA -- U.S. city in Washington
Population (2000): 1730
Housing Units (2000): 763
Land area (2000): 1.513121 sq. miles (3.918964 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.513121 sq. miles (3.918964 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16795
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.651157 N, 118.151627 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99122
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Headwords:
Davenport, WA
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Wikipedia
Davenport

Davenport may refer to:

Davenport (electoral district)

Davenport is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1935.

Davenport (sofa)

Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark.

Davenport (surname)

Davenport is a surname, and may refer to:

Davenport (provincial electoral district)

Davenport is a provincial riding in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

It was created in 1999 from parts of Oakwood, Dovercourt, Parkdale, High Park—Swansea and a small part of York South.

When the riding was created, it included all of Metro Toronto within the following line: Dovercourt Road to the CN railway to the Old Toronto city limits to Old Weston Road to Rogers Road to another CN railway to Eglinton Avenue to Dufferin Street to Rogers Road to Oakwood Avenue to Holland Park Avenue to Winona Drive to Davenport Road to Ossington Avenue to the CP railway back to Dovercourt Road.

In 2007, the boundaries were extended in the east so that they continued along Ossington south of the CP railway until Dundas Street and in the northwest the boundary became Keele Street and Lavender Road instead of the old city limits.

Usage examples of "davenport".

At this point Adam saw his way sufficiently clear to adumbrate to Davenport with fair exactness what he wished hime to find out.

Davenport and Lewiston were too close to the porch, and below it, to see Butters as he came through, but Stadic, back in the dark, had just enough time to set his feet and lift the shotgun.

We help smugglers bring things in and out of Davenport Beach, and this last time we got careless and a flesher zombified us.

I hate what Hello does - strips wooden furniture, cabinets, Davenport chests, by immersing the furniture in sodium hydroxide solution then hosing it down.

The Palo Alto phone directory listed a Laurel Turner with a Davenport 6-4124 number.

As that was going on, Chief Davenport and Lieutenant Selle were seen laughing as they stood over the body of the attacker .

Peter Strevens and Russell Davenport were roughly the same age and the same build.

Armand, Davenport, Vinter, and Conway remained calm, behaving as if nothing unusual had occurred.

Davenport, Conway, Vinter, three of the French antiquaires associated with Etienne and Jacques Lafitte, and several of their allies crossed over to where Armand was standing and closed ranks around him.

Jack Shannon, his wily roommate, had spent their nights at barrelhouse piano saloons on the South Side, listening to musicians with names like Pine Top Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Cow Cow Davenport pound the keys on their uprights.

Davenport and Lewiston were too close to the porch, and below it, to see Butters as he came through, but Stadic, back in the dark, had just enough time to set his feet and lift the shotgun.

Along with a dozen other visiting surgeons, Rich and Davenport had just finished watching a video of a laparoscopic hernia repair.

We placed her on a davenport in the music room, where for two hours I talked in turn with several spirits who had just been attracted from the patient.

After some casting about and a few false leads, we settled for a greasy spoon of sorts on Davenport, with vinyl seats and jukeboxes at the tables, stocked with country music and a sprinkling of old Beatles and Elvis Presley songs.

Pascoe sprang to the parapet, gripped one of the castellations with his left hand and caught Davenport by the jacket pocket.