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Definition of Love seat
1. Noun. Small sofa that seats two people.
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
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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