单词 | supper couch |
释义 | > as lemmassupper couch supper couch n. Roman History a couch for reclining on at meals. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 51 Some great ones drinking so hard, that they even leak'd on their supper couches. 1832 Tatler 9 Feb. 133/2 The ottoman on which I reclined might have made an old Roman spurn his supper couch. 1922 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 388 After the servant had disposed of the table and the supper couches, they drew chairs toward each other and fell into conversation, while from the atrium floated in the soft refrain of a favorite psalm of Paul's. 2006 S. Oden Memnon xi. 205 Iron cressets cast hazy light over six supper couches, arranged in a semicircle around the sparkling fountain. < as lemmas |
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