Definition of "window seat" [window seat]

• A seat next to a window, as in the recess of a bay window or on a bus or airplane. (noun)

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• "In the window seat was a rustic fellow who decided it was okay to chew tobacco as long as he spat its tarlike residue into a handheld paper cup."
• "She almost overbalanced and fell on the floor, but clung to her sheets and the edge of the window seat and managed to spare herself that at least."
• "I found Lady Thomasine, her tawny and cerise slippers poking out from under an elaborate brocade skirt, elegantly disposed in her window seat while Rafe Northcote played a romantic ballad for her."