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Parlor purchase
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divan
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A divan ( Turkish divan , originally from Persian devan ) is a piece of couch -like sitting furniture or, in the UK , a box-spring based bed. Primarily, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire ), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "Oriental council of state," from Turkish divan , from Arabic diwan , from Persian devan "bundle of written sheets, small book, collection of poems" (as in the "Divan i-Hafiz" ), related to debir "writer."\n \nSense evolved through "book of accounts," ...
Usage examples of divan.
I drew her gently into a closet where a soft divan formed a suitable altar for the completion of an amorous sacrifice.
He stood beside it, smiling, nodding the editor and little Bling onto the divan and the beefy photographer into the wide loveseat.
Ali Dey sat with folded legs upon the richly draped divan of the deys of Algiers.
Betsy in de eetkamer te zullen zien en zij begaf zich naar heur boudoir, waar de kachel reeds vlamde, en wierp zich op haar divan, diep ongelukkig in een smart vol wanhoop en verlatenheid.
Xavier Grushin from the doorway when the embarrassed Erast Fandorin lowered his legs from the hard divan.
Turksche fauteuil zette, en zij op den divan zitten bleef, steeds een beetje verlegen spelende met het snoer.
Mr Etermon taking a z-nap on the divan or stealing into the kitchen to sniff with erotic avidity the sizzling stew, represented quite unconsciously a living refutation of individual immortality, since his whole habitus was a dead-end with nothing in it capable or worthy of transcending the mortal condition.
He had to concentrate on not spilling any of his tea, the black haircloth divan was rattling so hard with their shock.
Cyrus Harding and his companions had drawn near the divan, and now arranged the cushions in such a manner as to better support the dying man.
She turned her attention to Fanny Whitcombe, who, ensconced in the corner of the opposite divan, was staring moonily at a painting of a Madonna and Child hanging on the wall.
He stamped twice upon mosaicked stones between two of the pillars, and a screen rolled aside, revealing an immense hall scattered about with low divans on which lolled a dozen or more of the dwarfish men, dressed identically as he.
The king, seated upon a raised pavonine divan, gazed intently at the prisoner before him.
New York restaurant of bygone days called Divan Parisien, where poached chicken was laid on a bed of broccoli and covered with hollandaise sauce.
While the first hooded would-be assassin howled with pain and executed a ragged rigadoon on the stately carpet, Harry was vaulting a flowered divan.
The seraskier did not rise for Yashim, but merely motioned him with dabbling fingers to a corner of the divan.