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[Snowpuppy]

On 7/21/2014 sunshine45 said:

On 7/21/2014 MaggieToo said:

We had what my parents called a ""chesterfield"".

interesting.....have not heard that term other than referring to cigarettes.

My Canadian friends relax on their chesterfield.

Pottery Barn has them and they are aptly named.

[CatsyCline]

oh, thought this was about the city in iowa

[circles]

it was a Davenport when I was a kid....and it morphed into sofa or couch later in my life...

good memories talking about Davenport....haven't heard that reference, I guess, since I was a kid....

I say purse...pocketbook was what mom called them..along with Davenport....lol....

[Gooday]

On 7/21/2014 tansy said: I thought that word was a Midwestern thing.

I am a Chicago girl. My BFF is of Polish descent. She still uses the term davenport. I say couch.

[MaryV]

On 7/21/2014 Lucky Charm said:

My family of Bostonians called it a divan (dye-van). the living room was the 'pah-lah' (parlor) or simply the front room. Front porch was called a 'piazza'.

Ditto. I think my neighbors said divan, we said couch.. but its still the parlor,

[LaterGator]

I remember sofas being called davenports. To me, it was a very strange word. I think I've even used the word myself. It just is so old fashioned.

At first, I thought you were going to talk about Davenport, Iowa.

[J Town Girl]

Apparently it was also a Pennsylvania term because my parents always called the sofa a davenport. I also remember my mother always called her handbag her pocketbook.

Boy those old fashioned names really do bring back good memories.

[stilltamn8r]

COUCH comes from coucher or se coucher- French for "put to bed" not neccesarily to "sleep" which is "dormir"..

"Davenport" was a company,i think from Masachussetts who made furniture.

[sylviahomeatlast]

couches here----el sofa in Mexico

[raven-blackbird]

my grandmother said davenport.....my aunts said couch.......I say sofa................raven