divan 的定义
- 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.
divan 近义词
couch
更多divan例句
- 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.