divan

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

The divan on which Sigmund Freud received some 500 patients sits in the London home where he spent the last year of his life after his escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

We were sitting on the divan, as usual, in each other’s arms.

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

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

The veritable whirl of the narrative takes on a physical dimension, too, as actors pull other actors, seated on chairs and divans, in circles around the stage.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2016

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