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Window seat

noun

A bench or similar seat built into a window recess.

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"Window seat" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rendell sat by her desk ostensibly busy with accounts, but in reality watching the movements of her daughter Lilias, who lounged on the window seat reading the letters which had just been delivered by the second post. Mrs Rendell herself had brought these letters into the room, and consequently knew full well who were her daughter's correspondents, and which envelope contained the separate ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... going to preach to you;—the panorama made me think; that's all. Well, I sauntered along, and presently came in sight of a broker's window, (ask your papa what a broker is,) in a basement, quite down upon the pavement. The window seat was covered with black velvet, and on it lay little glittering heaps of money, in gold and silver;—some quarters—some half-dollars—some dollars—some five dollar ...

— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern

Words linked to "Window seat" : bench