divan
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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
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
Phil Barone stepped across the threshold and spotted Cliff seated on a divan.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022
“Very well, Mr. Portman, I won’t argue with your need to know. Install yourself on the divan for the evening and we’ll discuss it first thing.”
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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