causeuse

• As it was out of the question that my sister should again visit the family room, the causeuse was brought into her chamber, where it was made to perform the office to which it had been several times devoted in its proper apartment since my return from sea. —  Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
• They were elegantly furnished and always adorned with flowers--for he loved le luxe and had the coquetterie des appartements FOOTNOTE: When I visited in 1880 M. Kwiatkowski in Paris, he showed me some Chopin relics: 1, a pastel drawing by Jules Coignet (representing Les Pyramides d'Egypte), which hung always above the composer's piano; 2, a little causeuse which Chopin bought with his first Parisian savings; 3, an embroidered easy- chair worked and presented to him by the Princess Czartoiyska; and 4, an embroidered cushion worked and presented to him by Madame de Rothschild. —  Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete
• I place the science of the countess's management of her husband as far above the peevish, arid virtues as the satin of a causeuse is superior to the Utrecht velvet of a dirty bourgeois sofa My dear fellow, I have spent six days in this delightful country-house, and I never tire of admiring the beauties of the park, surrounded by forests where pretty wood-paths lead beside the brooks. —  Sons of the Soil
• She rustled away, and Mrs. Rolfe sank back on to the _causeuse_ from which she had newly risen. —  The Whirlpool
• She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows. —  Despair's Last Journey

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