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

He described the divan as “a magnet for visitors from all over the world,” and said they were drawn, above all, to “the human stories connected with it.”

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

I was helping him, and we soon wound up sitting across from each other at his table, Peter on the chair and me on the divan.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank