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SETTLE
, a wooden See also:bench, usually with arms and a high back, See also:long enough to accommodate three or four sitters
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It is most commonly movable, but occasionally fixed as in the " boxes " of those old See also:coffee-houses of which a few examples still remain in See also:London, and perhaps elsewhere
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It shares with the See also:chest and the See also:chair the distinction of See also:great antiquity
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Its high back was a See also:protection from the See also:draughts of See also:medieval buildings—a, protection which was sometimes increased by the addition of winged ends or a wooden See also:canopy
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It was most frequently placed near the See also:fire in the See also:common sitting-See also:room
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Constructed of See also:oak, or other hard See also:wood, it was extremely heavy, solid and durable
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Few See also:English examples of earlier date than the See also:middle of the 16th See also:century have come down to us; survivals from the Jacobean See also:period are more numerous
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Settles • of the more expensive type were often elaborately carved or incised; others were divided into See also:plain panels
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A well-preserved specimen, with its richly polished oak, darkened by See also:time and beeswax, is a handsome piece of See also:furniture often still to be found in its See also:original environment--the See also:farm-See also:house See also:kitchen or the manorial See also: |
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