sofa
To furnish with one or more sofas.
Noun architecture
- A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.
- An upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.
- He bought a big sofa two days before his relatives arrived.
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them. - 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure...
- I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur - 2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry:
Origin
Borrowed from French sofa, ultimately from Arabic صُفَّة (ṣuffa, “a long seat made of stone or brick, covered with rich carpets and cushions and used for sitting”). Cognate with Aramaic צפא/Classical Syriac ܨܦܬܐ (ṣipā’, ṣeppəṯā, “mat, matting”). The word may have entered European languages via Muslim Iberia or through Turkish.
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Noun historical
- A slave soldier who served in the army of the Mali Empire.
- 1884 Sofas conquer northern Sierra Leone. The sofas were soldiers of Mandinka empire builder, Samori Turay. Falaba, capital of Solima Yalunka kingdom, destroyed in the process. - 2006, Magbaily C. Fyle, Historical...
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- To furnish with one or more sofas.
- The appearance of a student's apartment, though by no means splendid, is decidedly comfortable ; it is well cushioned and sofaed, with a proper proportion of arm chairs, and a general air of respectability — much better...
- First, it will surprize you to learn that instead of the venerable simplicity which reigns in St. Stephen's chapel, the H. of Representatives, besides being stoved, carpeted, desked, and sofaed in the most luxurious...
- I and another therefore entirely occupied our stateroom, which was sofaed round, being just large enough for two to lie down and a third to sit with his feet up and his head on his knees. - 1893, Henry Swinglehurst,...
- To seat or lay down on a sofa.
- Cliques of three or more are formed, each member of which goes in search of victims, and the first female found complaining of pain in the lower part of her back, is immediately run down, corralled, cornered, so to...
- A few, feeble words—my first—to tell you I have left my room this morning and am shaven and shorn and dressed and sofaed in my writing room, after a terrible ten days or more. - 1880 October 22, Benjamin Disraeli,...
- Many a time back in my boozing days when I was sofaed too. - 2006, Kim Akass, Janet McCabe, Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence: