sofa

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   archaïqueA raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

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   An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.

   He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.

   His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.

   I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

verbe

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   To furnish with one or more sofas.

   The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better on the whole than our student's rooms ever are.

   First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious style, rivals and indeed surpasses the Legislature of Paris in decoration and drapery.

   I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees.

   It was a lavish, fully draped, fully sofaed, fully radiator-covered nineteenth-century deluxe German hotel suite.

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   To seat or lay down on a sofa.

   A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more.

   Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too.

nom

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   historiqueA slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.

   1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process.

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