Meanings (ES + gloss)
diván
Any council or assembly.
As I passed, I called at the mad-house; where I found Mac Fane and the scowling keeper in high divan.
Startled at such an unaccountable event, they sat in close divan; and concluding that the case was in all respects unnatural and prodigious, desired that a messenger might be immed…
diván
A couch or sofa-like piece of furniture made of a mattress lying against the wall and on either the floor or an elevated structure.
Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.
diván
A collection of poems, especially one written by an author in Arabic or Persian.
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