Definition of "duchesse" [duchesse]

• A type of sofa borrowed by the English designer Hepplewhite from the French. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He imagined, for a moment, that the proposition of the duchesse was a snare; that perhaps some one was waiting at the door; and that she, whose secret had just been sold to"
• "He imagined, for a moment, that the proposition of the duchesse was a snare; that perhaps some one was waiting at the door; and that she whose secret had just been sold to"
• ""Now, listen to me, you little mischief," said the chevalier, sitting down on a huge sofa, formerly called a duchesse, which Madame Lardot had been at some pains to find for him."