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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
settee
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
▪ Lounge with bed settee makes a double bed.
▪ Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
▪ Living room includes double bed settee and small kitchen.
▪ There is a full sized double bed plus a comfortable bed settee which will sleep two children.
■ VERB
include
▪ Lounge includes bed settee which makes a double bed.
▪ Living room includes settee which makes a double bed at night.
▪ Living room includes double bed settee and small kitchen.
▪ Living room includes settee and easy chairs.
▪ The Oceanis 320 is a six-berth boat, if you include settee berths.
sit
▪ He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee, looking at the woman all the while.
▪ Then she sat down upon a settee and watched the people dance.
▪ We sat together on the settee oblique to the fireplace, and talked about work, which meant writing.
▪ She sat back on the settee until she heard Kate's key in the lock.
▪ She sat on the settee also, leaving a space between them.
▪ Pauline sits on the settee, and asks for a cup of tea.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All those red velvet curtains and golden tassels, and settees with little golden legs.
▪ Choose either a suite with double bed or large suite with double bed plus double bed settee for one or two children.
▪ Cliff swung me round with all his strength and flung me down on the settee.
▪ He is perched uncomfortably on a settee with a photo album on his knee.
▪ He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee, looking at the woman all the while.
▪ He went behind the settee and pretended to go to sleep.
▪ Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee.
▪ Sorrel, asleep on the settee, suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Settee

Settee \Set*tee"\, n. [From Set; cf. Settle a seat.] A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.

Settee

Settee \Set*tee"\, n. [F. sc['e]tie, scitie.] (Naut.) A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
settee

"long seat with back and arms," 1716, perhaps a variant of settle (n.), or a diminutive of set (v.) "act of setting."

Wiktionary
settee

Etymology 1 n. A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa. Etymology 2

n. A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.

WordNet
settee
  1. n. a long wooden bench with a back [syn: settle]

  2. a small sofa

Wikipedia
Settee (sail)

The settee sail was a lateen sail with the front corner cut off, giving it a quadrilateral shape. It can be traced back to Greco-Roman navigation in the Mediterranean in late antiquity; the oldest evidence is from a late-5th-century AD ship mosaic at Kelenderis, Cilicia. It lasted well into the 20th century as a common sail on Arab dhows. The settee sail requires a shorter yard than does the lateen, and both settee and lateen have shorter masts than square-rigged sails.

px250|right|thumb|Model of a sambuk with two settee sails

Settees (or saëtia) then were a sharp-prowed, single-decked merchant sailing vessel found in the Mediterranean (more in the Levant than in the Western Mediterranean), in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spaniards also used them in the New World.

Settees had two lateen-rigged masts, like xebecs or galleys, but carrying settee sails. They sailed well to windward and could sail downwind. Some polaccas carried a settee sail, giving rise to the polacca-settee (or polacre-settee).

Between the 1880s and the 1960s, Gozo boats had a settee rig.

Usage examples of "settee".

Their fully carpeted parlor was suited with a brand-new matching satin brocatelle settee and parlor chairs, their curtains were black Chantilly lace, and their walls were covered with paintings of peaceful wooded and mountain landscapes.

In fact Dakers was lying on a settee with her bare bandaged toes higher than her head.

Frost leant over him and pointed to the near-naked girl on the settee, who was stroking her breasts with feathery fingers and grinning inanely.

Frost plonked himself down on the settee and pulled out his cigarettes.

After a ham- mock it was going to be like sleeping in the Palace at Ver- sailles, even if he was going to doss down on the settee, which was as wide and soft as any bed he had ever experienced.

Her feet, stockingless, and adorned rather than clad in blue-satin slippers which swung nonchalantly from her toes, were perched on the arm of a settee adjoining the one she occupied.

Tanner and Styler on a small settee, and Androv took a large upholstered armchair, his back to the windows.

Almost arrogantly the slim lad turned and strode to the settee where Leala sat.

Even the best brocade wears out in time, and the delicate rose and blue coverings of the formal settees and wing armchairs had been mended and remended until they would stand repair no longer.

The sun shone rosily through the french windows, clearly revealing the features of the man stretched out on the settee and Chris came to an abrupt halt, her breathing unexpectedly constricted, almost unbearably conscious of the air burning her skin, as though someone had ripped off an entire layer and left her exposed to unendurable pain.

It was a little unnerving to have the senyor, instead of returning to the rumpled comfort of the settee made up as a bed for him, lower his long length into the chair across from her.

MEO, Lieutenant Joe Sparger, a tall, angular man, made room for Trevellion to sit in the centre of the U-shaped settee.

Wearing a best black suit, Adams posed on a red velvet settee in the parlor.

Petrie had his arm around Adelaide and his left leg hooked comfortably over the side of the settee, and he cursed under his breath.

At last, he saw Adelaide, alive with rats, crawling out on to the settee.