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divan

/dih-van, -vahn or, especially for 1, dahy-van/US // dɪˈvæn, -ˈvɑn or, especially for 1, ˈdaɪ væn //UK // (dɪˈvæn) //

桌椅,桌椅板凳,桌板,桌椅椅面

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sofa or couch, usually without arms or back, often usable as a bed.
    • : a long, cushioned seat, usually without arms or back, placed against a wall, as in Asian countries.
    • : a council of state in Turkey and other countries of the Middle East.
    • : any council, committee, or commission.
    • : a council chamber, judgment hall, audience chamber, or bureau of state.a large building used for some official or public purpose, as a custom house.
    • : a smoking room, as in connection with a tobacco shop.
    • : a collection of poems, especially a collection in Arabic or Persian of poems by one poet.

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Examples

  • Howard moved unsteadily to the divan in his Capitol Hill home and stared at the fire burning in the grate.

  • I carried her to the divan, and went to look for him, but he was not in the house, and the servants were gone to bed.

  • Marlon Brando yelled at the audience about dead children from a divan clad in a purple muumuu.

  • Sir Lucien threw himself nonchalantly upon the divan, and took out his cigarette-case.

  • On a shelf above the divan, however, were many books, and Gwynne ran his eye over them.

  • Monte Irvin, very pale and haggard, sat upon the divan beside Quentin Gray.

  • The present Great Mogul has so little taste, that he has had this divan divided into two parts by a very paltry partition wall.

  • The rich old piano and Maud's guitar occupied one corner, and a low, velvet divan the other, on each side of the mantel.