Settee vs Suttee - What's the difference?
settee | suttee |
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.
The custom and/or act of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.
English terms derived from Hindi
As nouns the difference between settee and suttee
is that settee is a long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa while suttee is the custom and/or act of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion to her late spouse.settee
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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.