divan
Example Sentences
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Howard moved unsteadily to the divan in his Capitol Hill home and stared at the fire burning in the grate.
From Washington Post
An advert for Everyday Life sat alongside ones for a fridge-freezer, bales of hay and a divan bed in north Wales' Daily Post.
From BBC
It was commonplace to see paintings of women lying naked on divans, but not a sensual portrait of a man.
From The Guardian
The centerpiece of the exposition is Édouard Manet’s “Olympia,” a world-famous painting from the Orsay’s collection that depicts a nude woman on a divan whose gaze accosts the viewer and scandalized the 1865 Salon.
From Washington Post
Ask your spouse to please address you as a divan potato.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
