davenport
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One day in January, near the turnstile at the exit of the 125th Street subway station, something caught my eye: a sepia-toned photograph that showed what looked like three siblings sitting on a davenport.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
She and her brothers, she wrote, had grown up in Onalaska, Wis., and she had loved that davenport.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
We’d sit on the davenport, helping Grandmom make dinner.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 9, 2015
President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, of Brazil awaited delivery of a new office for himself and staff: a transport plane, complete with desk, swivel chair and davenport.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as another thought struck her, Mama collapsed onto the leather davenport there in the front hall.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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