window-seat

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noun A typically soft seat placed in a recess, for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess.

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“I must say,” said Buckingham, entering unannounced and dropping lazily onto the tufted window-seat, “befriending the wife is not a strategy I have seen before.”

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I am writing this tucked into a window-seat, wrapped in a coverlet, with the castle finally asleep.

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I remained in the cushioned window-seat next to Ruby, who had been startled from her afternoon nap.

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Instead of readying for bed, she came and sat in the window-seat.

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I am writing this in the little curved window-seat in my bedroom.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
I am writing this tucked into a window-seat, wrapped in a coverlet, with the castle finally asleep.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
One day, in the window-seat near the big piano — you remember how she could play?

WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
General Folsom, nursing his capacious paunch in a window-seat in the smoking-room was defending himself against half-a-dozen excited gentlemen who were demanding that he should do something.

THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
“I must say,” said Buckingham, entering unannounced and dropping lazily onto the tufted window-seat, “befriending the wife is not a strategy I have seen before.”

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
Wrapped in my counterpane, I am curled in the window-seat.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011