causeuse

• “If she realizes it," whispered Madame de Monredon, who was sitting beside Madame d'Argy on a 'causeuse' shaped like an S, "why does she persist in dressing her like a child six years old?”

  Jacqueline — Complete

• “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

• “Mrs. Bates leaned carelessly against the tortured framework of a tapestried _causeuse_.”

  With the Procession

• “Bertrams did not grow on every bush, and whose senses the function had preternaturally sharpened for any address from Romance, seized and shook her sister's arm; and, later on, in a Louis Quinze _causeuse_, up stairs, they agreed that if young Cope really had had another claimant on his attention, it was all the better that their Amy had ended by taking”

  Bertram Cope's Year

• “Medora and Randolph settled down on a causeuse in the drawing-room.”

  Bertram Cope's Year

• “She rustled away, and Mrs. Rolfe sank back on to the _causeuse_ from which she had newly risen.”

  The Whirlpool

• “The small sofa on which she had placed herself had the form to which the French give the name of _causeuse_; there was room on it for just another person, and Ransom asked her, with a cheerful accent, if he might sit down beside her.”

  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)

• “The drawing-room is full of sofas, and divans, and ottomans, and a _causeuse_, a little”

  Real Folks

• “Yet one day, while Hátszegi was in the drawing room of the countess, paying his court to her most assiduously, Vámhidy entered _sans gêne_; whereupon the countess hastily springing up from her _causeuse_ asked leave of the baron to withdraw for a moment and there and then conducted”

  The Poor Plutocrats

• “She ushered him into the _salon_, where he had scarcely set foot, when he descried an old woman lounging on a _causeuse_, fanning herself as she chatted with Abbe Miollens.”

  Samuel Brohl and Company

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