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sofa

[soh-fuh]

noun

  1. a long, upholstered couch with a back and two arms or raised ends.



sofa

/ ˈəʊə /

noun

  1. an upholstered seat with back and arms for two or more people

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sofa1

1615–25; < Turkish < Arabic ṣuڴڲ platform used as a seat
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sofa1

C17 (in the sense: dais upholstered as a seat): from Arabic suffah
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But the only one that made me feel anything was that pathetic sauropod abandoned like a sidewalk sofa.

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There is a circle of sofas safely placed around a camp fire, a nod back to the days when Strummer would come to the festival with his family in the 90s.

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Andrews designed two curvy couches for his collection with furniture company A. Rudin and estimates he includes a serpentine sofa in roughly half his design projects.

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They sat on the sofa watching an old Mexican movie as Alexa pounced on her father’s shoulders, showed him her schoolwork, and dragged him out into the yard to play tag.

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Levi had enjoyed sofa privileges in Altadena, but those rights did not travel with him.

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