Settee vs Confidante - What's the difference?
settee | confidante |
A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean.
A female confidant
A type of settee.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 20:
*:Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
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As nouns the difference between settee and confidante
is that settee is a long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa or settee can be a vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, used in the mediterranean while confidante is a female confidant.settee
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees . There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
