Hypertext Webster Gateway: "davenport"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Davenport \Dav"en*port\, n. [From the name of the original
maker. --Encyc. Dict.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Davenport
n 1: a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from
Moline and Rock Island [syn: {Davenport}]
2: a small decorative writing desk
3: a large sofa usually convertible into a bed
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