Definition of "window-seat" []

• A typically soft seat placed in a recess, for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess. (noun)

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• "General Folsom, nursing his capacious paunch in a window-seat in the smoking-room was defending himself against half-a-dozen excited gentlemen who were demanding that he should do something."
• "One day, in the window-seat near the big piano — you remember how she could play?"
• "“I must say,” said Buckingham, entering unannounced and dropping lazily onto the tufted window-seat, “befriending the wife is not a strategy I have seen before.”"