Morse, Frances Clary · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 219
the articles oftenmentioned in inventories, chusshings, quysyns,or cushions, which the hard seat made so necessary.This settle belongs to Dwight Blaney, Esq., ofBoston. Settles, Settees, and Sofas ^95 The word settee is the diminutive of settle,and the long seat which corresponded to the chairswith… … lllus. 162. — Settee covered with Turkey work, 1670-1680. brought to this country by a Huguenot familyabout 1686. It is upholstered, like the chairs ofthe same stvle, in Turkey work, the colors in whichare still bright. Turkey work was very fashionableat that time, rugs being imported from Turkey…
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