Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small sofa or settee for two persons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of sofa for two persons. A tête-à-tête.

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  • noun A sofa for two people; a love seat or tête-à-tête.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • "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?

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • "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 1873

  • 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 David Christie Murray

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

    With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • 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 Henry Blake Fuller 1893

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

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

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

    The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

  • 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) Henry James 1879

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

    Real Folks 1865

  • 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 M��r J��kai 1864

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  • A sofa made for two. Loveseat.

    August 28, 2009

  • JM enjoys saying to couples 'Please take a causeuse!'

    December 27, 2009