sofan.

Brit.

/ˈsəʊfə/, U.S.

/ˈsoʊfə/

Forms: Also 1600s-1700s soffa, 1600s–1800s sopha; 1700s sophee, sophy, 1800s vulgar sofy.

Etymology: = French sofa, sopha, Italian sofa, Spanish sofa, Portuguese sofa, < Arabic ṣoffah.

1. In Eastern countries, a part of the floor raised a foot or two, covered with rich carpets and cushions, and used for sitting upon. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > in Eastern countries

sofa1625

α.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1581 A Sofa spread with very sumptuous Carpets of Gold,..vpon which the Grand Signior sitteth.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1683/3 The Grand Vizier came thither soon after, and sate down on a Stool placed on the Sofa.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 313 The next room is a very large one, pav'd with Marble, and all round it rais'd 2 Sofas of marble, one above another.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 104 He..beheld..a young man sitting on a sofa raised to the height of a cubit from the floor.

β. a1658 G. Courthope Mem. (1907) 124 A Sopha, which is a place raised from the floor about a foot to sit on.1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece v. 350 Making us sit upon a Sopha, and drink Coffee with him.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 190 The old man and his wife,..placing me betwixt them, sat down upon a sopha of turf by the door.a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) ii. 22 I paid a visit to the pasha..and found him sitting on his sopha.

2. A long, stuffed seat with a back and ends or end, used for reclining; a form of lounge or couch. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun]

reclinatoryc1425

crabat1483

coucha1500

daybed1597

squab1664

repose1685

settee1716

sofa1717

long chair1750

duchesse1794

canapé1795

chaise-longue1800

sultane1803

chaise lounge1807

lounge1830

dormeuse1865

takht1884

méridienne1925

Berbice1951

lounger1964

α.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 20 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 261 The Bridegroom sits on a very low sort of seat not unlike an oriental sofa.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 88 Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury th' accomplish'd Sofa last.

1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 97 The splendid sofa, which, though made for rest, He then had thought it freedom to have press'd.

1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 47 Sofas, rocking chairs, tables, and a stove are placed in this room.

1864 E. Burritt Walk to John O'Groats 313 A row of flower sofas reaching round the garden.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 275 She makes him lie on a sofa near the open window.

β. 1727 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire V 8 On her Sophee she sits, Vouchsafing audience to contending Wits.1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxiv. 146 I threw myself on a soffa.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 39 After having..diffused yourself on the sopha.1832 C. T. Moore Country Houses II. xii. 10 On a sopha in the green-room.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as sofa-corner, sofa-cover, sofa-cushion, etc.

ΚΠ

1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 135 A circular pavillion, elegantly fitted up with cushions and sopha seats.

1805 Times 7 Nov. 4/2 Card, sofa, and Pembroke tables.

1807 J. Austen Let. 9 Feb. (1995) 121 There will then be the Window-Curtains, sofa-cover, & a carpet to be altered.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 164 On the opposite side of the sofa table.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi That well-known sofa-corner.

1846 F. Marryat Valerie viii, in New Monthly Mag. Nov. 283 The bottle..which I had..left under the sofa-pillow.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxi. 181 It was all I could do to prevent myself from throwing the sofa cushion at her.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vii. 115 The dead body..which she was laying out on a board, placed on a sort of sofa-settee.

1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xxiii. 333 She felt the misfortune to the beautiful new sofa-cover as a most serious calamity.

1937 Burlington Mag. May 240/1 Attempts to introduce gothic ornament into a sofa-table, a bookcase or a chair.

1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Aug. 6/2 (advt.) Exceptionally fine Rosewood Regency sofa table.

1978 House & Garden Dec. 78/2 Striped Welsh flannel chair and sofa covers.

b. Objective, as sofa-maker, sofa-stuffer.

ΚΠ

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. iii. 99 My friend, the sofa-maker, never troubled himself to inquire after me.

1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 4 A beard that would have been a small fortune to a sofa-stuffer.

C2.

sofa-back n. (a) an antimacassar; (b) the back of a sofa.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > part of sofa

sofa-back1878

settee1891

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > cover for furniture > for seat

banker?c1350

dosser1379

doss1475

dorsea1524

dossal1658

tidy1850

antimacassar1852

chair-back1858

sofa-back1878

1878 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 27 June (1956) VII. 33 The sorrows of those who can afford..to think of anything better than sofa-backs.

1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery 63 Design for sofa-back cover.

1894 ‘M. Twain’ Puddn'head Wilson viii, in Cent. Mag. Jan. 338/2 Tom..hoisted a leg over the sofa-back.

sofa-bed n. (originally) a piece of furniture so constructed as to form a sofa or bed as required; (now) a sofa which may be converted into a bed.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed

settee-bed1769

chair-bed1805

sofa-bed1805

sofa-bedstead1833

put-you-up1924

bed-settee1933

Knole sofa1942

Winnipeg couch1954

sleeper1973

1805 Times 7 Nov. 1/2 (advt.) Sofa Beds, Chair Beds, and Tables.

1816 H. Repton Fragm. Landscape Gardening (1840) 585 To have dressing-rooms, in which sofa-beds may..be used.

1824 T. De Quincey Incognito in Knight's Q. Mag. 3 148 Down went the little sopha-bed in a closet.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvii. 247 She induced him to lie down on his own sofa bed.

sofa-bedstead n. = sofa-bed n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed

settee-bed1769

chair-bed1805

sofa-bed1805

sofa-bedstead1833

put-you-up1924

bed-settee1933

Knole sofa1942

Winnipeg couch1954

sleeper1973

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §650 We shall give some Designs..for sofa-bedsteads.

1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xi A little dusky sofa-bedstead (woe betide him who has to sleep on it!).

sofa-carriage n. a carriage having the seat made like that of a sofa.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with sofa-seat

sofa-carriage1822

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 730 The use of his easy and convenient sofa-carriage.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5686 Sofa carriages, especially constructed for spinal complaints.

sofa-ridden n. confined to a sofa (nonce-word).

ΚΠ

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) III. 496 There she sat, sofa-ridden.

† sofa stall n. Obsolete a seat in a hall or theatre made like a sofa.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > seat or place > types of seat

pigeonhole1732

box seat1779

stall1828

orchestra seat1843

orchestra stall1849

fauteuil1859

sofa stall1862

stall seat1920

house seat1927

riser1945

1862 Notice Mason Jones' Oration on Garibaldi 8 Apr. Sofa Stalls. Four Shillings.

Derivatives

ˈsofaed adj. (a) seated as on a sofa; (b) furnished with a sofa or sofas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > in or as in a specific place

sofaed1789

tabled1789

armchaired1837

benched1873

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [adjective] > furnished with sofas

sofaed1789

divaned1847

1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 69 Sopha'd on silk, amid her charm-built towers,..In sullen apathy Papaver nods.

1802 T. Campbell Let. 28 Aug. (1849) I. xv. 397 A lord's house, fashionable strangers, sofa'd saloons, and winding galleries.

1842 C. Dickens Let. 3 Jan. (1974) III. 7 A comfortable room,..well-lighted, sofa'd, mirrored, and so forth.

1860 G. Vandenhoff Dramatic Reminisc. vi. 104 A very good-sized room had been fitted up as my dressing-room, cleaned, carpeted, sofa'd, well lit.

1934 ‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin ii. 22 The Grant-Howards sat in the green-sofa'd saloon.

ˈsofane adj. relating to a sofa.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 514/1 A sofa, of incomprehensible form regarded from any sofane point of view.

Draft additions June 2022

sofa set n. South Asian, South-East Asian, and East African a set of furniture consisting of a sofa and matching chairs, esp. a three-piece suite of two armchairs and a sofa.

ΚΠ

1929 Times of India 3 July 3/5 (advt.) For Sale Billiard Table by John Robert, English Sofa Set and other Furniture.

1993 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 1 Mar. There was no sofa set then. We only got this sofa set when Christopher started working.

2018 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 25 June The sofa set has flowery seat covers that match the curtains.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sofa
释义	sofan. Brit. /ˈsəʊfə/, U.S. /ˈsoʊfə/ Forms: Also 1600s-1700s soffa, 1600s–1800s sopha; 1700s sophee, sophy, 1800s vulgar sofy. Etymology: = French sofa, sopha, Italian sofa, Spanish sofa, Portuguese sofa, < Arabic ṣoffah. 1. In Eastern countries, a part of the floor raised a foot or two, covered with rich carpets and cushions, and used for sitting upon. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > in Eastern countries sofa1625 α. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1581 A Sofa spread with very sumptuous Carpets of Gold,..vpon which the Grand Signior sitteth. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1683/3 The Grand Vizier came thither soon after, and sate down on a Stool placed on the Sofa. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 313 The next room is a very large one, pav'd with Marble, and all round it rais'd 2 Sofas of marble, one above another. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 104 He..beheld..a young man sitting on a sofa raised to the height of a cubit from the floor. β. a1658 G. Courthope Mem. (1907) 124 A Sopha, which is a place raised from the floor about a foot to sit on.1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece v. 350 Making us sit upon a Sopha, and drink Coffee with him.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 190 The old man and his wife,..placing me betwixt them, sat down upon a sopha of turf by the door.a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) ii. 22 I paid a visit to the pasha..and found him sitting on his sopha. 2. A long, stuffed seat with a back and ends or end, used for reclining; a form of lounge or couch. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] reclinatoryc1425 crabat1483 coucha1500 daybed1597 squab1664 repose1685 settee1716 sofa1717 long chair1750 duchesse1794 canapé1795 chaise-longue1800 sultane1803 chaise lounge1807 lounge1830 dormeuse1865 takht1884 méridienne1925 Berbice1951 lounger1964 α. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 20 Jan. in Wks. (1955) VII. 261 The Bridegroom sits on a very low sort of seat not unlike an oriental sofa. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 88 Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury th' accomplish'd Sofa last. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 97 The splendid sofa, which, though made for rest, He then had thought it freedom to have press'd. 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 47 Sofas, rocking chairs, tables, and a stove are placed in this room. 1864 E. Burritt Walk to John O'Groats 313 A row of flower sofas reaching round the garden. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 275 She makes him lie on a sofa near the open window. β. 1727 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire V 8 On her Sophee she sits, Vouchsafing audience to contending Wits.1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxiv. 146 I threw myself on a soffa.1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 39 After having..diffused yourself on the sopha.1832 C. T. Moore Country Houses II. xii. 10 On a sopha in the green-room. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as sofa-corner, sofa-cover, sofa-cushion, etc. ΚΠ 1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 135 A circular pavillion, elegantly fitted up with cushions and sopha seats. 1805 Times 7 Nov. 4/2 Card, sofa, and Pembroke tables. 1807 J. Austen Let. 9 Feb. (1995) 121 There will then be the Window-Curtains, sofa-cover, & a carpet to be altered. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 164 On the opposite side of the sofa table. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi That well-known sofa-corner. 1846 F. Marryat Valerie viii, in New Monthly Mag. Nov. 283 The bottle..which I had..left under the sofa-pillow. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxi. 181 It was all I could do to prevent myself from throwing the sofa cushion at her. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vii. 115 The dead body..which she was laying out on a board, placed on a sort of sofa-settee. 1861 C. M. Yonge Young Step-mother xxiii. 333 She felt the misfortune to the beautiful new sofa-cover as a most serious calamity. 1937 Burlington Mag. May 240/1 Attempts to introduce gothic ornament into a sofa-table, a bookcase or a chair. 1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Aug. 6/2 (advt.) Exceptionally fine Rosewood Regency sofa table. 1978 House & Garden Dec. 78/2 Striped Welsh flannel chair and sofa covers. b. Objective, as sofa-maker, sofa-stuffer. ΚΠ 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. iii. 99 My friend, the sofa-maker, never troubled himself to inquire after me. 1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 4 A beard that would have been a small fortune to a sofa-stuffer. C2. sofa-back n. (a) an antimacassar; (b) the back of a sofa. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [noun] > part of sofa sofa-back1878 settee1891 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > cover for furniture > for seat banker?c1350 dosser1379 doss1475 dorsea1524 dossal1658 tidy1850 antimacassar1852 chair-back1858 sofa-back1878 1878 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 27 June (1956) VII. 33 The sorrows of those who can afford..to think of anything better than sofa-backs. 1880 L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery 63 Design for sofa-back cover. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Puddn'head Wilson viii, in Cent. Mag. Jan. 338/2 Tom..hoisted a leg over the sofa-back. sofa-bed n. (originally) a piece of furniture so constructed as to form a sofa or bed as required; (now) a sofa which may be converted into a bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed settee-bed1769 chair-bed1805 sofa-bed1805 sofa-bedstead1833 put-you-up1924 bed-settee1933 Knole sofa1942 Winnipeg couch1954 sleeper1973 1805 Times 7 Nov. 1/2 (advt.) Sofa Beds, Chair Beds, and Tables. 1816 H. Repton Fragm. Landscape Gardening (1840) 585 To have dressing-rooms, in which sofa-beds may..be used. 1824 T. De Quincey Incognito in Knight's Q. Mag. 3 148 Down went the little sopha-bed in a closet. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxvii. 247 She induced him to lie down on his own sofa bed. sofa-bedstead n. = sofa-bed n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > sofa-bed or chair-bed settee-bed1769 chair-bed1805 sofa-bed1805 sofa-bedstead1833 put-you-up1924 bed-settee1933 Knole sofa1942 Winnipeg couch1954 sleeper1973 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §650 We shall give some Designs..for sofa-bedsteads. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xi A little dusky sofa-bedstead (woe betide him who has to sleep on it!). sofa-carriage n. a carriage having the seat made like that of a sofa. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with sofa-seat sofa-carriage1822 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 730 The use of his easy and convenient sofa-carriage. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5686 Sofa carriages, especially constructed for spinal complaints. sofa-ridden n. confined to a sofa (nonce-word). ΚΠ 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) III. 496 There she sat, sofa-ridden. † sofa stall n. Obsolete a seat in a hall or theatre made like a sofa. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > seat or place > types of seat pigeonhole1732 box seat1779 stall1828 orchestra seat1843 orchestra stall1849 fauteuil1859 sofa stall1862 stall seat1920 house seat1927 riser1945 1862 Notice Mason Jones' Oration on Garibaldi 8 Apr. Sofa Stalls. Four Shillings. Derivatives ˈsofaed adj. (a) seated as on a sofa; (b) furnished with a sofa or sofas. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > [adjective] > in or as in a specific place sofaed1789 tabled1789 armchaired1837 benched1873 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > sofa or couch > [adjective] > furnished with sofas sofaed1789 divaned1847 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 69 Sopha'd on silk, amid her charm-built towers,..In sullen apathy Papaver nods. 1802 T. Campbell Let. 28 Aug. (1849) I. xv. 397 A lord's house, fashionable strangers, sofa'd saloons, and winding galleries. 1842 C. Dickens Let. 3 Jan. (1974) III. 7 A comfortable room,..well-lighted, sofa'd, mirrored, and so forth. 1860 G. Vandenhoff Dramatic Reminisc. vi. 104 A very good-sized room had been fitted up as my dressing-room, cleaned, carpeted, sofa'd, well lit. 1934 ‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin ii. 22 The Grant-Howards sat in the green-sofa'd saloon. ˈsofane adj. relating to a sofa.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 24 Mar. 514/1 A sofa, of incomprehensible form regarded from any sofane point of view. Draft additions June 2022 sofa set n. South Asian, South-East Asian, and East African a set of furniture consisting of a sofa and matching chairs, esp. a three-piece suite of two armchairs and a sofa. ΚΠ 1929 Times of India 3 July 3/5 (advt.) For Sale Billiard Table by John Robert, English Sofa Set and other Furniture. 1993 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 1 Mar. There was no sofa set then. We only got this sofa set when Christopher started working. 2018 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 25 June The sofa set has flowery seat covers that match the curtains. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1625
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