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- noun Plural form of
davenport .
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Examples
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Instead there was a small duty-free shop, a couple of miniature barrooms where you could stand with your foot on the rail, a nook with built-in davenports, and other places in which you could stretch, be free and easy, and not feel like you were trapped in a Broadway extravaganza and would catch hell from your wife and the eighteen people between you and the aisle if you bolted.
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Instead there was a small duty-free shop, a couple of miniature barrooms where you could stand with your foot on the rail, a nook with built-in davenports, and other places in which you could stretch, be free and easy, and not feel like you were trapped in a Broadway extravaganza and would catch hell from your wife and the eighteen people between you and the aisle if you bolted.
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Pierrot, lost now and napping on dusted davenports and Pierrot lost and expanding shadowed puppets against the water stained wallpapers and those wallpapers bulged with the husks of beetles and mice.
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I want to emphasize those who moved, who migrated, who got off their mortar and pestle, wooden davenports and put their feet to the ground.
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Sots, do any of you have divans, davenports or love slabs in your office?
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Many of who had to put up with my ample frame draped across their davenports for days on end.
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Kevin Boyer and the Noise bled the ears of dozens the world over, sending radio programming geeks curled up on their davenports forever.
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Springs and fillings in davenports, easy chairs, and couches should be most thoroughly investigated.
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All this being the case, how come no one ever sofas anything, much less davenports it?
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