settee

IPA: sˈɛtˈi

(UK, Texas) A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.
A surname from Cree.

Examples of "settee" in Sentences

Gill found the poet prostate on a settee.
Bernard, who takes up residence on the settee.
Between the chairs and the settee was a wooden box.
A mahogany and horsehair settee is against the wall.
Near the stair to the second floor is a wooden settee.
Such beds are not usually referred to as settee berths.
On the box, she poses on the settee holding the Candlestick.
Later, Albert, now sporting a black eye, is laid out on the settee.
It became the prototype for a style that became known as the Knole settee.
No other fire damage beyond the settee and surrounding linoleum was found.
The manor itself is described as having French windows and a large settee.
The question for any couple reduced to long-term settee status is how much bitterness must there be to make the settee preferable to the bed?
_In the middle of the room, a little to the right, there is a large and comfortable settee, and on the left of the settee is a table littered with books, magazines, a scent-atomizer, a small silver-framed mirror, a case of manicure instruments, a box of cigarettes and a match-stand, and other odds and ends.
It seems that he had dived down into what was peculiarly his kingdom, and beside him on the settee was a brand which he had brought up in the shape of a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with sin and sorrow that one read the terrible years which had left their leprous mark upon her.