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
Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
He was perched with his Chihuahua, Queenie, on a French divan upholstered in green velvet.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2020
He returns to the divan but rests at the edge as though he’s going to have to jump up in a moment.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
The big companies lay panting on their divans for months, unable to turn on a dime or even on endowments of millions of dollars.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
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
Locke’s bedroom is messy—books and clothes scattered on divans and low couches.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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