Sentences with divan
di·van
D d - The palace comprises tall, elaborately decorated rooms where the Khan held his divans, or council meetings.
- Its living room had cushions and divans, and the kind owner offered us a room for the night.
- Opening a side door, he saw a small, ornately - furnished parlor with two divans facing each other.
- A deep, luxurious carpet covered the floor, and several divans were situated around the room.
- You sit on divans at low tables, as waiters in fezzes and djellebas produce dishes like magicians from velvet tagine-shaped platters.
- When we sit for dinner it is on divans against walls covered with rich Moroccan fabrics.
- Resting on the divan in the hall, noises of loud whispers and bursts of laughter reach my ears - coming from Sophia's room.
- Every year the divan, the ruling council of the Pirate Republic of Bou Regreg met to elect two officers for the year.
- She was lounging on a divan, and looked rather uncomfortable - like she was hurt.
- The king holds court in the divan, where citizens can make requests or express complaints.
- The room was simply furnished with a large divan facing the TV set, two comfortable looking armchairs, all surrounding a wooden table.
- As an example of minimalism to the extreme, Hanson used only a cluttered desk and a divan to suggest Higgins' study.
- I spotted Jonas and his friends lounging on ornate, divan couches in the ‘mirror’ room.
- One woman stretched out on the divan lounge, thoughtfully perusing a scroll.
- Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
- Zeus, looking slender and self-possessed as he lies on the divan opposite.