Crossword clues for sheraton
sheraton
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
Sheraton may refer to:
- Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, a hotel chain
- Sheraton, County Durham, a village in County Durham, in England
- Sheraton Centre (Barbados), a mall complex located in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados
- Sheraton style, an 18th-century neoclassical furniture style, so called after Thomas Sheraton
- The Epiphone Sheraton, a guitar manufactured by Gibson's Epiphone division
- Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806), English furniture designer
Usage examples of "sheraton".
She lay in her bed at the Sheraton, dreading her meeting with DePalma, listening to the radio disc jockeys delight in telling Twin Citians that exposed skin could freeze in as little as sixty seconds.
He was heading for Bal Harbor on Miami Beach where Figaro had told him there was an excellent shopping mall opposite a classy Sheraton, with the sea view he had stipulated.
A limned-oak Sheraton gateleg card table with a brass filigree railing, it says on the note card.
Silky Road, Joey and the congressman had been playing at the lovely Yampa River Valley course at the Sheraton.
He had poured her a small glass of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her favorite Drambuie liqueur, but it remained untouched on the Sheraton side table next to her chair.
An elegant Sheraton console, inlaid with exotic fruitwoods, stood against one wall underneath a gilt Georgian mirror, and was flanked on either side by Sheraton chairs upholstered in apricot velvet.
He folded them into a Sheraton envelope, scrawled her name on, went downstairs overcoated, told the reception clerk to put it into her box.
On that trip they had stayed at Hiltons and Sheratons instead of in the RV at camping areas, and the elder Carvers had gotten themselves laid every damned night.
He should by rights demand compensation for defilement but contented himself with getting the hell out, not paying his bill, and asking the taxi driver who had brought him hither and was staying to share in the excitement to take him and his defilements to the Sheraton Hotel in Indianapolis.
I got a job as a lunch waitress at the Sheraton Hotel and a cheap apartment on the wrong side of Ann Arbor.
And it was a position of prestige within the hierarchy, especially within Foster Hotels Corporation, where the Old Man devoutly believed that bell captains made more of an impression on guests than any other individual on the staff, impressions that would either draw them back again or send them to Hilton or Sheraton.
He paced between the two little Sheraton loveseats to the window, glanced out at the cloudy afternoon, then turned expectantly toward the door.
More than a little teed off, I made my way finally to the Buenos Aires Sheraton Hotel, where CBS News had set up offices.
The driver insisted first on showing him the town he was to dwell in for a space, or it may have been a matter of his not knowing where the Sheraton Hotel was and hoping to find it by dint of cruising the entire city around.