SOFA  , a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• COUCH, DARIUS NASH (1822-1897)

couch with stuffed back, arms and seat, to hold two or more persons . The word is of Arabic origin, and is an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of suffah, couch, from See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root saffa—to draw up in See also:

• LINE

line . According to See also:

• RICHARDSON, GEORGE
• RICHARDSON, HENRY HOBSON (1838-1886)
• RICHARDSON, SAMUEL (1689-1761)
• RICHARDSON, SIR JOHN (1787-1865)

Richardson, See also:

• DIET

Diet. of Eng . See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang. quoted by See also:

• SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat, the Arabic suffah was particularly a reclining See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood or See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone placed before the doors of See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental houses . In the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture the sofa was a development of the straight backed See also:

• SETTEE

settee . It was not so much therefore a long See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair or See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of chairs, as a seat or couch for reclining . The See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early 19th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century type had a back with a single See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm at one end, the other being See also:

• LEFT

left open . The most favoured See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is that known as the See also:

• CHESTERFIELD
• CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, 4TH EARL, OF (1694–1773)

Chesterfield, with See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double arms and back, heavily padded .