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Definition of "settee" [set•tee]

  • A long wooden bench with a back. (noun)
  • A small or medium-sized sofa. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "settee" in a sentence
  • "The question for any couple reduced to long-term settee status is how much bitterness must there be to make the settee preferable to the bed?"
  • "Between the chairs and the settee was a wooden box."
  • "It seems that he had dived down into what was peculiarly his kingdom, and beside him on the settee was a brand which he had brought up in the shape of a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with sin and sorrow that one read the terrible years which had left their leprous mark upon her."