Chesterfield vs. Couch — What's the Difference?

A single- or double-breasted overcoat, usually with concealed buttons and a velvet collar.

A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, futon, or chesterfield (see Etymology below), is a piece of furniture for seating two or three people. It is commonly found in the form of a bench, with upholstered armrests, and often fitted with springs and tailored cushions.

Chiefly Northern California & Canada A sofa.

A long upholstered piece of furniture for several people to sit on

A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

A coarse grass with long creeping roots, which can be a serious weed in gardens.

(Canada) Any couch or sofa.

Express (something) in language of a specified style

A davenport with upright armrests.

Lay down

A fitted overcoat with a velvet collar.

Lower (a spear) to the position for attack

Suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)

Treat (a cataract) by pushing the lens of the eye downwards and backwards, out of line with the pupil.

An overstuffed davenport with upright armrests

(in embroidery) fix (a thread) to a fabric by stitching it down flat with another thread

A fitted overcoat with a velvet collar

A sofa.

A sofa on which a patient lies while undergoing psychoanalysis or psychiatric treatment.

The frame or floor on which grain, usually barley, is spread in malting.

A layer of grain, usually barley, spread to germinate.

A priming coat of paint or varnish used in artistic painting.

To word in a certain manner; phrase

To cause (oneself) to lie down, as for rest.

To embroider by laying thread flat on a surface and fastening it by stitches at regular intervals.

To spread (grain) on a couch to germinate, as in malting.

To lower (a spear, for example) to horizontal position, as for an attack.

To lie down; recline, as for rest.

To lie in ambush or concealment; lurk.

To be in a heap or pile, as leaves for decomposition or fermentation.

An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

A bed, a resting-place.

The den of an otter.

A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.

(brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.

Psychotherapy.

, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.

To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

(transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.

(transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.

(transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

(transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.

In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.

To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.

To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.

To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.

(archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.

To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

To arrange or dispose as in a bed; - sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.

To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

To conceal; to include or involve darkly.

To arrange; to place; to inlay.

To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; - used with in and under.

To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.

To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.

To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.

A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.

Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.

An upholstered seat for more than one person

A flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer

A narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment

Formulate in a particular style or language;