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/dɪvˈæn/
/dɪˈvæn/Divan
[NOUN]1
a low couch-like seat, typically without a back or arms, often used as a daybed or for additional seating in a living room
Examples
1. On the divan in the bar room and on the terrace, we felt it.
2. The divans by the window were used by the queen mother and the wives of the sultan, and the musicians used the balcony up above.
3. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes.
4. This was the divan that the sultan used as a throne.
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