window-seat

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

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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
One day, in the window-seat near the big piano — you remember how she could play?

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

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

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

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

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

Exit the Actress
Anne Lowe , veteran flight attendant: The folks in the aisle seat can lean toward the aisle, and the window-seat passenger has the window to lean on.

So Who Gets the Armrest?
Another key feature: Out are pull-down window shades and in are electrochromatic shades that allow flight attendants and window-seat passengers to dim windows to a range of settings with the push of a button.

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