window-seat

A form of window seat — A typically soft seat placed in a recess, for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess.

Meanings

nounwindow-seat (plural window-seats)

plural window-seats

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of window seat.

    So Michael sat all the afternoon on the window-seat telling her everything that occurred in the Lane.

    1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “The Dancing Cow”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 64
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Chicago

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