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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From the name of the original maker.

Encyc. Dict.

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A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.

A much battered

davenport

in one of the windows, at which sat a lady writing.

A. B. Edwards.

See also: davenport

Davenport

A habitational surname from the town in Cheshire.
A surname of Irish origin from the Gaelic Ó Donndubhartaigh.
A surname of Anglo-Norman origin: de avesne port, where avesne is derived from Frankish avisna ("field" see:Wiese).
Any of a number of cities in the English-speaking world.

See also: Davenport

davenport ‎(plural davenports)

A large sofa, especially a formal one.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
  He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.
A writing desk.
- 1894, E. Somerville, Martin Ross The Real Charlotte
  Then she went into the house, and, sitting down at the davenport in the dining—room, got out a sheet of her best notepaper, and wrote a note to Pamela Dysart in her strong, commercially clear hand.
- 1944, Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler Double Indemnity (screenplay)
  He crosses to the davenport to get the policies from his briefcase,