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sofa
has definitions from the field of housing
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[ noun ] (housing) an upholstered seat for more than one person
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)He settled_on the sofa with his coffee , warming his hands on the cup , although the room was heavy with heat . Inside , as_soon_as Mr._Skopas had disclosed - in a hoarse whisper - the detective 's errand , his family gathered in a huddle , forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace . It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor . All four remained impacted on the sofa until he had left . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)One of the drawing-room shutters was partly open and he made_out the shapes of chairs and sofas , which seemed to be upholstered in brown or russet velvet . |
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