as in couch
a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters
whenever I stayed over at their house I usually slept on the divan in the living room
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In the living room, curtains in yellows, pinks, and reds reminiscent of early autumn hung above a divan dressed with striped lumbar and couch pillows which gallerist Alex Tieghi-Walker would later cover himself with, as his version of being dressed in Le Réunion clothing.
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Maria Geyman, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.
—Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
But taken in toto, this charmingly rumpled director-writer with a three-day beard sitting on a divan in a New York hotel room is a Renaissance man, having directed dozens of music videos and ads and designed further dozens of album covers, usually for independent artists.
—Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
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Maria Geyman, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023
Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Pluto was on break, resting on a divan.
—Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
But taken in toto, this charmingly rumpled director-writer with a three-day beard sitting on a divan in a New York hotel room is a Renaissance man, having directed dozens of music videos and ads and designed further dozens of album covers, usually for independent artists.
—Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
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“Divan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divan. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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