window-seat

window-seat

See also: window seat

English

Alternative forms

• window seat

Etymology

window +‎ seat

Noun

window-seat (plural window-seats)

1. A typically soft seat placed in a recess for a window, in a wall, and filling the recess.
   • 1981, P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins, revised edition, chapter 5,

     So Michael sat all the afternoon on the window-seat telling her everything that occurred in the Lane.

Translations

seat in window recess

French: coussiège (fr) m

Norwegian: vindussete