2021年8月26日 星期四

be couched in, upholster, reupholstered, diwan or divan, be couched in


Reupholstered piano stool. Couldn't have chosen a more perfect print. Makes me smile every day. Hmm what can I cover next....


Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, made an unprecedented visit to Singapore on March 24th to pay respects to Lee Kuan Yew a day after his death. China insists that Taiwan is a renegade province with no right to conduct its own diplomacy. Although couched as a personal visit, not a formal one, this is still a diplomatic coup for Taiwan
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 ...all couched in her graceful and poised prose.


Reupholstered
vb 1. to upholster again or differently 2. to upholster again or differently Collins English ...

couch1

Syllabification: (couch)
Pronunciation: /kouCH/

noun

  • a long upholstered piece of furniture for several people to sit on.
  • a reclining seat with a headrest at one end on which a psychoanalyst’s subject or doctor’s patient lies while undergoing treatment.

verb

[with object]
  • 1 (usually be couched in) express (something) in language of a specified style:many false claims are couched in scientific jargon
  • 2 [no object] literary lie down:two creatures couched side by side in the deep grass
  • 3 archaic lower (a spear) to the position for attack.
  • 4 (usually as noun couching) chiefly historical treat (a cataract) by pushing the lens of the eye downward and backward, out of line with the pupil.
  • 5(in embroidery) fix (a thread) to a fabric by stitching it down flat with another thread:gold and silver threads couched by hand

Phrases

on the couch

undergoing psychoanalysis or psychiatric treatment.

Origin:

Middle English (as a noun denoting something to sleep on; as a verb in the sense 'lay something down'): from Old French couche (noun), coucher (verb), from Latin collocare 'place together' (see collocate)



diwan
or divan
Islamic hall, court, council-chamber, court of justice, or audience-chamber.


divan

1. In Muslim countries, a council room or hall for a court of justice.
2. A smoking room.
A divan (Greek: ντιβάνι divani) is a piece of couch-like sitting furniture.
Originally, in the Middle East (especially the Ottoman Empire), a divan was a long seat formed of a mattress laid against the side of the room, upon the floor, or upon a raised structure or frame, with cushions to lean against.
Divans received this name because they were generally found along the walls in Middle Eastern council chambers of a bureau called divan or diwan (from Persian, meaning a government council or office, from the bundles of papers they processed, and next their council chambers). Divans are a common feature of the liwan, a long vaulted narrow room in Levantine homes. The sofa/couch sense was taken into English in 1702.
The divan in this sense has been commonly known in Europe certainly since about the middle of the 18th century. It was fashionable, roughly speaking, from 1820 to 1850, wherever the romantic movement in literature penetrated. All the boudoirs of that generation were garnished with divans. They even spread to coffee-houses, which were sometimes known as divans or Turkish divans, and a cigar divan remains a familiar expression.

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