davenports in English

noun

1

an industrial city in southeastern Iowa, on the Mississippi River, one of the Quad Cities; population 100,827 (est. 2008).

noun

1

a large upholstered sofa, typically able to be converted into a bed.

The most commonly illustrated combinations of sofa and bed in the nineteenth century were the bed lounge, the bed couch, and the davenport sofa bed.

2

an ornamental writing desk with drawers and a sloping surface for writing.

With a range of furnishings, from chiffonier, davenport and farthingale chairs to fauteuil and ottomans, aesthetes can choose from a wide range at the exhibition.

Use "davenports" in a sentence

1. And this is what the Davenports wanted-an objective analysis of why their son was having so much difficulty being mature and self-sufficient.