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

Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

A desk, a bed, a divan, three windows on each side.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr