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1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 135 A circular pavillion, elegantly fitted up with cushions and sopha seats.

1805 Times 7 Nov. 4/2 Card, sofa, and Pembroke tables.

1807 J. Austen Let. 9 Feb. (1995) 121 There will then be the Window-Curtains, sofa-cover, & a carpet to be altered.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 164 On the opposite side of the sofa table.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi That well-known sofa-corner.

1846 F. Marryat Valerie viii, in New Monthly Mag. Nov. 283 The bottle..which I had..left under the sofa-pillow.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxi. 181 It was all I could do to prevent myself from throwing the sofa cushion at her.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vii. 115 The dead body..which she was laying out on a board, placed on a sort of sofa-settee.

1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xxiii. 333 She felt the misfortune to the beautiful new sofa-cover as a most serious calamity.

1937 Burlington Mag. May 240/1 Attempts to introduce gothic ornament into a sofa-table, a bookcase or a chair.

1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Aug. 6/2 (advt.) Exceptionally fine Rosewood Regency sofa table.

1978 House & Garden Dec. 78/2 Striped Welsh flannel chair and sofa covers.