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rout seat

rout seat noun: a bench used to seat people at social events.

Noun

rout seat (plural rout seats)

  1. (historical) A bench used to seat people at social events.
    • Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

Forms of rout seat

pluralrout seats

Questions about rout seat

What does rout seat mean?
Rout seat means a bench used to seat people at social events.
What part of speech is rout seat?
Rout seat is a noun.
What is the plural of rout seat?
The plural of rout seat is rout seats.

Words near rout seat in the dictionary

  1. rout
  2. rout cake
  3. rout cakes
  4. rout chair
  5. rout chairs
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  7. rout seats
  8. routability
  9. routable
  10. route
  11. Route 66

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