setteen.1
/səˈtiː/ Now historical.
A decked vessel, with a long sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with a kind of lateen sails, in use in the Mediterranean. Also attributive. settee-sail n. (see quot. 17941).In some of the early quots. the vessel appears to have been a fairly large merchant ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > lateen-rigged > types of
settee1587
tartana1588
tartan1621
jerm1632
pattamar1704
dhow1799
sackalever1819
1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Civ M. Barton with all the residue of his companie departed from Tripolie to Oezant in a vessell called a Settea of one Marcus Segoorus.
1653 H. Appleton Remonstr. Fight Legorn-Road 1 The Warwick..takes a French Sattee coming in to the Road.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 13 To take that opportunitie to cleanse my shippes and to furnish myselfe with a sattie and other necessaries, and to change my ballast.
1666 Oxf. Gaz. No. 17/4 A Sette came also from Malaga, a Vessel rarely seen in these parts; she is about fifty Tuns, and her Masts like a pair of Taylors Sheers opened.
1667 London Gaz. No. 133/1 An English Satia from Tangier.
1686 W. Hedges Diary 20 Dec. (1887) I. 237 We came up and spoke with a French Settee of Marseles.
1712 Blinston in London Gaz. No. 5026/6 Three Martineco Ships, a Cettee and Gavilan.
1755 in Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia (1881) 53 For every Ship Twenty Seven Shillings and Sixpence for every Snow Brig Polacre or Saetia [printed Sactia] Twenty Two Shillings and Six pence for every Sloop or Schooner [etc.].
1786 in Amer. St. Papers (1833) I. 107 1 Setye of 34 guns.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 136 Boat's Settee Sail. This sail is quadrilateral. The head is bent to a latteen-yard.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 236 Polacre-settee is a vessel with three masts, usually navigated in the levant or mediterranean,..generally rigged with square-sails upon the main and mizen mast, and a latteen-sail upon the foremast, like a xebec.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 238 Settee, a vessel used in the mediterranean, rigged and navigated similar to xebecs or galleys, with settee-sails instead of latteen-sails.
1860 Earl Dundonald Autobiogr. Seaman (1862) 181 On the 11th [Nov. 1808] we captured a settee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† setteen.2
Obsolete. rare.
A double pinner for the head.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > close-fitting > with flaps
pinner1575
settee1688
toy1702
toy-mutch1751
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 482/1 A Coronet settee..covers the Head, and by doubling it makes it stand at a great height both above and besides the Face.
1692 Scarronides ii. 63 With top-knots fine, to make 'em pretty, With tippet, pallateen and settee.
1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 11/1 A Settee is only a double Pinner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
setteen.3
/sɛˈtiː/, U.S. /sɛˈti/ a. A seat (for indoors) holding two or more persons, with a back and (usually) arms; occasionally also with divisions (see quot. 1785). In America sometimes furnished with rockers.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun]
reclinatoryc1425
crabat1483
coucha1500
daybed1597
squab1664
repose1685
settee1716
sofa1717
long chair1750
duchesse1794
canapé1795
chaise-longue1800
sultane1803
chaise lounge1807
lounge1830
dormeuse1865
takht1884
méridienne1925
Berbice1951
lounger1964
1716 London Gaz. No. 5494/4 All Sorts of Hangings for Rooms and Stair-cases, Chairs, Settees and Screens.
1718 Free-thinker No. 44. 1 The Damask Settee was placed in the Center.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 312 An oak settee, on which his bones lay.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 75 Ingenious Fancy..devis'd The soft settee; one elbow at each end, And in the midst an elbow it receiv'd, United yet divided, twain at once.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 336 Settee, a sopha or moveable window-seat; in more modern language called, I believe, conversation stool. I have not heard the word of many years, and believe it is going out.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Gengulphus in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 246 The aforesaid barbe gris..Had been stuff'd in the seat of a kind of settee, Or double-arm'd chair.
1888 E. Eggleston Graysons i. 6 There was a green settee with three rockers beneath and an arm at each end.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 141 An abundance of velvet ‘settees’, or divan sofas.
1895 Stores' Price List 192 Cane Settee.
b. U.S. (See quot. 1891.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > part of sofa
sofa-back1878
settee1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Settee,..(b) A small part taken off from a long and large sofa by a kind of arm: thus, a long sofa may have a settee at each end partly cut off from the body of the piece.
c. settee-bed n. a bed that can be folded up so as to form a settee.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed
settee-bed1769
chair-bed1805
sofa-bed1805
sofa-bedstead1833
put-you-up1924
bed-settee1933
Knole sofa1942
Winnipeg couch1954
sleeper1973
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Banc à coucher, a sort of folding bed-stead, or settee-bed.
1786 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 141 Settee bed with blue and white cheque covers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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