chesterfield

plural chesterfields

1. A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

   Around the table in the bay window, the slim, japanned dining chairs. The chesterfield suite, antimacassar-draped.

   1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34

2. CaliforniaCanadadatedAny couch or sofa.

1. Any of a number of settlements:
   1. A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.
   2. A hamlet in Wall parish, Lichfield district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1005)
   3. A rural municipality in west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261.
   4. A village in the town of Montville, New London County, Connecticut.
   5. A ghost town and historic district in Caribou County, Idaho.
   6. A village and township in Macoupin County, Illinois.
   7. A town in Union Township, Madison County and Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana.
   8. A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
   9. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Macomb County, Michigan.
   10. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
   11. A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
   12. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Burlington County, New Jersey.
   13. A town in Essex County, New York.
   14. A township in Fulton County, Ohio.
   15. A town, the county seat of Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
   16. A census-designated place in Henderson County, Tennessee.
   17. A neighbourhood of West Valley City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
   18. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Chesterfield County.

plural Chesterfields

1. datedAn extremely polite person.

   "The man-eatin' Papuans had me once, but they are Chesterfields compared to this crowd."

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   The White House attendants are Chesterfields of politeness, and the visitor must be aggressive and persistent indeed who is not kept within proper limits without having his sensibilities wounded.

   1901, Mrs. John A. Logan, Thirty Years in Washington, page 141