canapé châtelaine
English translation: French (antique) sofa
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| 23:07 Sep 15, 2011 |
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|  Selected response from: Jenni Sheppard Canada Local time: 15:18 | ||||||
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| 3 +4 | French (antique) sofa |
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| 4 +3 | sofa |
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| 4 | Sofa-bed |
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| 3 | elegant sofa |
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peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4French (antique) sofa Explanation: As specified by the below antiques vocab website, a canapé is a French term for sofa: http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/dictionary-c.shtml And according to wikipedia, one which looks specifically looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canapé_(furniture) Following on from that, the old word châtelaine meant the lady of the manor, as also explained in the antiques vocab page mentioned above. I believe the sofa would have been for her use, as they are very ornately decorated chairs. This puts the sofa as being an antique French-style sofa or settee designed for the lady of the house. I decided on the term French sofa because the English don't tend to be more specific than simply French when describing a foreign style and when combined with sofa this phrase brings up 15 million hits on Google Images, most of which resemble exactly the kind of sofa we're trying to describe: http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&gfns=1&q=french sofa&u... I'd quite like one now! |
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