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Window seat

noun

A bench or similar seat built into a window recess.

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"Window seat" Quotes from Famous Books

... on each of Rosy's thin shoulders—she felt sharply defined bones as she did so—and bent to kiss her. It was the natural affectionate expression of her feeling, but tears started to Rosy's eyes, and the boy Ughtred, who had sat down in a window seat, turned red again, and shifted ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... all through the Cabin at home," she replied. "There was a tumbler turned over their eggs on the dining-room floor, and you dared not sit on the right side of the library window seat because ...

— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter

... felt rather guilty and doubtful of his reception, as a neat little Monegasque maid told him that Madame was chez elle. But he need not have been anxious. As the maid announced his name with a pronunciation all her own, a pretty girl sprang up from a chintz-covered window seat, in a drawing-room which in an instant took Carleton across the sea ...

— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... back upon their cushions; only Pepper accompanied her to the attic room. He jumped upon the window seat, wriggling and yapping, and they looked forth together from the open casement upon the spectacle of Bruce and Mr Peter apparently engaged in mortal combat. The collie had realised that he was off the chain and about to take a walk, ...

— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

... home! What happiness!" exclaimed Bess, whirling Nan around until they both dropped breathless on the window seat. ...

— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr

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