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divan

[dih-van, -vahn, dahy-van] / dɪˈvæn, -ˈvɑn, ˈdaɪ væn /
NOUN
couch
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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

Phil Barone stepped across the threshold and spotted Cliff seated on a divan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

Then I went to wash my hands and sat down across from him on the divan.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023

Ms Busby alleges the two divans which made up the base of the bed were not properly fastened together and two "gliders" - or feet - were missing from the end of the bed.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2018

There are also informal interviews, with team personnel wrangling players inside the downtown Renaissance Riverview hotel, bringing them to divans, or folding tables, or a secluded nook behind a pair of grand pianos.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2018

And Offred muses that handmaid gatherings look like "paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard."

From The Verge ● Jun. 15, 2017

Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans, turbans on their heads or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunuch in the background standing guard.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood


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