window seat

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window seat

1. A bench built into the opening of a window, as in the recess of a bay window.

2. A seat next to a window, as on a bus or airplane.

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window seat

1. (Furniture) a seat below a window, esp in a bay window

2. a seat beside a window in a bus, train, etc

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win′dow seat`

a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.

[1745–55]

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Noun

window seat - a bench or similar seat built into a window recess

bench - a long seat for more than one person

Translations

مَقْعَدٌ بِجِوَار النَافِذَة

místo u okna

vinduesplads

Fensterplatz

θέση δίπλα σε παράθυρο

asiento de ventanilla

ikkunapaikka

place fenêtre

sjedalo pored prozora

ablakülés

posto alla finestra posto vicino al finestrino

窓下の腰掛け

창쪽 좌석

stoel aan het raam

vindusplass

miejsce przy oknie

assento à janela assento adjunto à janela

место у окна

en plats vid fönstret

ที่นั่งใกล้หน้าต่าง

cam kenarı koltuğu

chố ngồi cạnh cửa sổ

靠窗座位

window seat

n (in house) panchetta fissa vicino alla finestra; (in train) → posto vicino al finestrino

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

window seat

→ مَقْعَدٌ بِجِوَار النَافِذَة místo u okna vinduesplads Fensterplatz θέση δίπλα σε παράθυρο asiento de ventanilla ikkunapaikka place fenêtre sjedalo pored prozora posto vicino al finestrino 窓下の腰掛け 창쪽 좌석 stoel aan het raam vindusplass miejsce przy oknie assento à janela, assento adjunto à janela место у окна en plats vid fönstret ที่นั่งใกล้หน้าต่าง cam kenarı koltuğu chố ngồi cạnh cửa sổ 靠窗座位

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Anne got herself to her room, sat down on her window seat behind the pines, and cried bitterly.

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The two girls sat in the window seat, looking out at the lights and the stream of hurrying vehicles in the avenue.

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It could be nothing but the violence of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the shutters; and she stepped boldly forward, carelessly humming a tune, to assure herself of its being so, peeped courageously behind each curtain, saw nothing on either low window seat to scare her, and on placing a hand against the shutter, felt the strongest conviction of the wind's force.

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We had left Miles indoors, on the red cushion of a deep window seat; he had wished to finish a book, and I had been glad to encourage a purpose so laudable in a young man whose only defect was an occasional excess of the restless.

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He pitched out of the tree, and would have broken his blessed old neck if Arch had not caught him," observed Steve, as he lounged gracefully in the window seat.

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