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Recent Examples of settee
Hefty stone fireplaces and exposed travertine door frames share space with chandeliers of pink beaded glass, as well as low-slung lounge chairs and settees.
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
Across the globe, discerning hotels are filling their spaces with settees, divans, sofas, and armchairs that stretch beyond the merely functional and into the realm of art—some even center their whole design scheme around the seating arrangements.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 5 Sep. 2025
By Southern law, enslaved people were property, like a plow horse or a prized settee, bought and sold or passed down from one family member to another.
—David Wright Faladé, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Most of us would settle for Lucozade and a duvet on the settee, but Howe is Newcastle’s king nerd.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
Across the globe, discerning hotels are filling their spaces with settees, divans, sofas, and armchairs that stretch beyond the merely functional and into the realm of art—some even center their whole design scheme around the seating arrangements.
—Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 5 Sep. 2025
By Southern law, enslaved people were property, like a plow horse or a prized settee, bought and sold or passed down from one family member to another.
—David Wright Faladé, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Most of us would settle for Lucozade and a duvet on the settee, but Howe is Newcastle’s king nerd.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for settee
Noun
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Even so, one evening Justin came home, sat next to his mother on the couch and put his arm around her.—
Alexandra Rockey Fleming,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Psychoanalysis licensed his candor, but the audience didn’t always join him on the couch.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Wrapped in a blanked on the sofa, binging reruns of The Oprah Show on YouTube and gleefully ignoring emails all morning is my idea of heaven.—
Jackie Fields,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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Babies should not sleep in loungers, car seats outside of the car, swings, on an adult’s bed, or on a sofa or chair.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Settee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/settee. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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