Definition of Love seat

1. Noun. Small sofa that seats two people.

Exact synonyms: Loveseat, Tete-a-tete, Vis-a-vis
Generic synonyms: Couch, Lounge, Sofa
Derivative terms: Tete-a-tete

Definition of Love seat

1. Noun. A small sofa for two people, British: ''two-seater settee''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Love Seat

love interests
love is blind
love knot
love letter
love letters
love line
love lyric
love match
love muscles
love potion
love rat
love seat (current term)
love seats
love slaves
love song
love spoon
love spoons
love story
love tap
love taps
love to bits
love toys
love tree
love triangle

Literary usage of Love seat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Windsor Handbook: Comprising Illustrations & Descriptions of Winsor by Wallace Nutting (1917)
"... Bow-back "love seat Also called John and Priscilla chair, courting chair, short settee, double-seated WINDSOR, and in Connecticut sometimes even wagon ..."

2. Antique Furniture by Frederick William Burgess (1915)
"The love-seat or double chair of those days is something quite different to the light and attractive double chair or settee formed of two or more chair ..."

3. The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner Callahan Teall (1920)
"... love-seat, it was often called—while the "accomplished" sofa combined, or was supposed to combine, all the advantages and virtues of couch and settee, ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"... moral feeling, seat of character, character, seat of moral life. 5. Love, affections, feeling, emotion, seat of affection or love, seat of feeling or ..."

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