divan

Example Sentences

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The green-eyed 20-year-old Queen sat next to the Shah on a divan while he sat in his shirtsleeves telling the story of the flight.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

A parallel tradition of high poetry in Turkish called divan poetry also developed, which used the rhyme schemes and poetic meters of Persian poetry.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

He was perched with his Chihuahua, Queenie, on a French divan upholstered in green velvet.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2020

Even then the Tisroc remained seated in silence on the divan till Aravas almost began to be afraid that he had dropped asleep.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis