Crossword clues for settee
settee
- Furniture piece in a parlor
- Den piece
- Type of sofa
- Davenport's kin
- Part of a living room set
- Parlor furniture item
- Piece of furniture
- Parlor seat
- Kind of couch
- Chesterfield's cousin
- Sofa variety
- Porch piece
- Drawing room piece
- Couch potato's perch, sometimes
- Bowling center seating
- Victorian parlor item
- Type of couch
- Soft bench
- Sofa's smaller cousin
- Sofa for a small room
- Smaller sofa
- Relative of a love seat
- Piece of the drawing room
- Mini sofa
- Mid-sized sofa
- Medium-size sofa
- Lounge sofa
- Lobby sofa
- Living room purchase
- Item in a Victorian parlor
- Furniture in a parlor
- Furnishing for a music video, perhaps
- Foyer sofa
- Divan's cousin
- Bowling-alley bench
- Bowling center bench
- Bit of porch furniture, perhaps
- Banquette's cousin
- Article of living room furniture
- Arctic Monkeys lyric "Spilling drinks on my ___"
- Antique furniture piece
- Parlor piece, perhaps
- Sofa type
- Couch kin
- Living room piece, sometimes
- Sofa's cousin
- Soft seat
- Parlor item, perhaps
- Medium-sized sofa
- Small sofa
- End table accompanier
- Upholstered piece, often
- Certain sofa
- Parlor fixture
- A long wooden bench with a back
- A small sofa
- Seat for two or three
- Bench with a back
- Small couch
- Vessel with a long, sharp prow
- Furniture item
- Hepplewhite product
- Cozy seat for two
- Divan kin
- Seat of a sort
- Love seat
- Sofa of a sort
- Long seat with a back
- Kind of bed or sail
- Seat for two or more persons
- Bench for two or three
- Bench's cousin
- Crossword solver, as it were, gets a seat
- Comfy seating
- Seat — firm support for golfers
- Furniture item solver suggested?
- Firm support for driver's seat
- Long upholstered seat
- Prepare to drive in comfy seat
- Place to rest?
- Living-room piece
- Place to sit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Settee \Set*tee"\, n. [From Set; cf. Settle a seat.] A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
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
Wiktionary
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
n. a long wooden bench with a back [syn: settle]
a small sofa
Wikipedia
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.