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settee

noun
🔊/seˈtiː/
🔊/seˈtiː/
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  1. a long comfortable seat with a back and arms, for two or more people to sit on长沙发 synonym sofa, couch
    • He slumped down exhausted on the settee.他筋疲力尽地跌坐在长椅上。
    • She found her glasses lying on the settee.她发现自己的眼镜搁在长椅上。
    Topics Houses and homesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • comfortable
    • comfy
    • leather
    • …
    verb + settee
    • sit (down) on
    • lie on
    • fall asleep on
    • …
    preposition
    • on the settee
    phrases
    • the arm of a settee
    • the back of a settee
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    Word Originearly 18th cent.: perhaps a fanciful variant of the noun settle.