单词 | divan |
释义 | divann. 1. a. An Islamic council of state; spec. in Turkey, the privy council of the Porte, presided over by the Sultan, or in his absence by the grand vizier. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] hustinga1030 Great Councilc1275 council1297 parliamentc1300 privy councilc1390 divan1586 Council of State1611 legislative council1651 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] > oriental divan1586 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 679 In Turkie the councell is kept fouer daies in a week by the Bassaes wheresoeuer the prince soiourneth... In this councell called Diuan..audience is open to euery one. a1597 R. Wrag in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 305 Requesting the ambassador within an houre after to goe to the Douan of the Vizir. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 252 Mahomet being dead, the three great Bassaes..called a Diuano or counsell for the warres, as if the king had been aliue. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ix. xii. §6 He comes no more at the Duana, except hee bee called. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2230/1 Proposals have been made for these two Months last past in the Divan. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea III. xxix. 199 The divan declared for the continuation of the peace. 1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos ii. xviii. 326 In full Divan the despot scoffed. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 366/2 Upon its conquest by the Turks, Tunis was governed by a Turkish basha and a divan, or council of military men. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet II. lvii. 487 The Moslem Caliph at Damascus had now his divan, in imitation of the Persian monarch. b. transferred. A council in general. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting synagoguea1300 councilc1340 collect1382 convent1382 convocation1387 samingc1400 advocationa1425 meetingc1425 steven1481 congress1528 concion1533 conference1575 collection1609 congression1611 divan1619 rendezvous1628 comitia1631 society1712 majlis1821 get-up1826 agora1886 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxxviii. 770 This (what Diuano would haue done it?) is too weightie. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 457 The great consulting Peers, Rais'd from thir dark Divan . View more context for this quotation 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 903 The consult of the dire Divan. 1763 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) IV. 130 Of the British Senate, of that august divan whose wisdom influences, [etc.]. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. xii. 282 To meet the family..in full divan. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 324 The changeless decree of Heaven's Deewàn. 2. The hall where the Turkish divan is held; a court of justice; a council-chamber. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court in Turkey divana1597 a1597 R. Wrag in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 305 Certaine Chauses conducted him to the Douan, which is the seat of Justice. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 157 The rigour of the Caddies or Causæ in the Divanoes, or Iudgement Hals. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 46 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Under this Gate is the Diwan, or the place of publick Judicature. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Chiosk at Pera in Poems 'Till at the dread Divan the slow procession ends. c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 548 The officers of state went into the divan, or hall of audience, where the sultan always assisted in person. 3. Originally: a long seat consisting of a continued step, bench, or raised part of the floor, against the wall of a room, which may be furnished with cushions, so as to form a kind of sofa or couch. Now usually: a low bed or couch with no back or ends. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > other sofas or couches bed-loft1606 Persian bed1654 divana1701 bergère1762 stibadium1840 deacon-seat1851 tuxedo sofa1895 Davenport1897 Chesterfield1900 Madame Récamier1923 Récamier1923 contour couch1952 incliner1978 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > without posts or ends French bed1596 French bedstead1638 stump bedstead1823 stump bed1841 stump1875 divan1954 a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 29 These Duans are a sort of low stages..elevated about sixteen or eighteen inches or more, above the floar... Upon these the Turks eat, sleep, smoake, receive visits, say their prayers, &c. 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant ix. 32 Their greatest Magnificence consists in their Divans or Sofas. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. xix. vi. 265 The Hebrew word mittah, which is here translated ‘bed’ may be understood of a divan. 1813 Edinb. Rev. 21 133 The divan is that part of the chamber which is raised by a step above the rest of the floor, and which, is commonly surmounted by a couch..placed along the wall. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 148 The bed being soft and comfortable, Mr. Quilp determined to use it, both as a sleeping place by night and as a kind of Divan by day. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xiv. 103 The Aga conducted me to the divan where he himself sat. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xxix. 129 I had a divan in my sitting-room, and could very well sleep on that. 1954 ‘V. H. Collins’ One Word & Another 47 A divan is an upholstered piece of furniture... It can be used as a bed (often called divan-bed) in a bedroom, or as a settee in the day and a bed at night. 1965 M. Forster Bogeyman x. 175 The cover over her divan was red and white striped cotton. 4. A room having one side entirely open towards a court, garden, river, or other prospect. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others hell1310 summer hall1388 summer parloura1425 paradise1485 fire room1591 garden room1619 ease-room1629 portcullis1631 divan1678 but?1700 sluttery1711 rotunda1737 glass casea1777 dungeon1782 hall of mirrors1789 balcony-chamber1800 showroom1820 mirror room1858 vomitorium1923 mosquito room1925 refuge room1937 quiet room1938 Florida room1968 roomset1980 wet room1982 1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. vii. 49 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. On the side that looks toward the River there is a Divan, or a kind of out-jutting Balcone, where the King sits to see his Brigantines. 1759 London Mag. 28 605 In Surat..They [the Moors] have generally a kind of saloon which they call a diwan, entirely open on one side to the garden. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. vii. 307 The great rooms of state are upstairs..open at one side like Mahometan divans. 5. A name sometimes given to a smoking-room furnished with lounges, in connection with a cigar-shop or bar, as cigar-divan; hence, a fancy name for a cigar-shop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling tobacco tobacco-shop1605 smoke-shop1798 cigar-divan1847 tabac1918 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > smoking room tobacco-room1656 smoke-hole1673 smoking-room1689 divan1847 smoke-room1883 smoking lounge1951 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 222 Mr. Toots had furnished a choice set of apartments; had established among them a sporting bower,..and a divan, which made him poorly. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xvi. 267 Mr. Harding had not a much correcter notion of a cigar divan than he had of a London dinner-house. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xx. 179 Mr. Trenchard..said to Endymion, ‘We are going to the divan. Do you smoke?’ 6. A Persian name for a collection of poems (Persian, Arabic, Hindustani, Turkish); spec. a series of poems by one author, the rhymes of which usually run through the whole alphabet. [ < the original sense ‘collection of written sheets’, perhaps influenced by later uses of the word.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems > title of Parnassus1600 catalects1610 sylva1636 Mu'allaqat1772 divan1823 1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) I. ii. 61 A perfect divan, in their eyes, was that in which the poet had regularly pursued in his rhymes, all the letters of the alphabet. a1827 J. M. Good in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. 6 Persian poets..distinguish their separate poems..by the name of gazels, and the entire set..by that of diwan. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 42/1. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 292/2 The most important diwans are those of..Hafiz, Saadi, and Jami among the Persians. The plan has been imitated by Goethe in his ‘West-östlicher Divan’. 1886 Athenæum 18 Dec. 820/1 Complete Divans of the great poetical triumvirate, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, and Jehuda Halevi. Compounds General attributive. divan-bed n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > couch or settle used as bed couch-bed1625 settle bed1641 couch-bedsteada1753 studio couch1903 studio bed1924 divan-bed1933 sleep sofa1973 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 99 A leather-and-oak ‘daven-bed’ had obviously and literally been dragged to the least conspicuous corner.] 1933 Discovery Aug. 254/2 There is a divan-bed opposite the window. divan-cover n. ΚΠ 1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 217/2 Box-shape divan cover. divan-day n. ΚΠ 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio iii. 26 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) The Divan-dayes [that is to say, upon Council-dayes]. divan-hall n. ΚΠ 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio iv. 30 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) All these Officers come into the Divan-Hall, at four in the Morning. divan-seat n. ΚΠ 1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer 11 There are circular recesses at each side of the fireplace, with divan seats running round them. divan-sofa n. ΚΠ 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 141 An abundance of velvet ‘settees’, or divan sofas. Derivatives divaned adj. furnished with divans (sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [adjective] > furnished with sofas sofaed1789 divaned1847 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. v. ii. 50 Some strolled into the divaned chambers. 1852 G. W. Curtis Wanderer in Syria 300 Alcoves..divanned with luxurious stuffs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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