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Sheraton   /ʃˈɛrətən/   Listen
Sheraton

noun
1.
A furniture style that originated in England around 1800; simple in design with straight lines and classical ornamentation.






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"Sheraton" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Hogarth was an artist, but not that he had found time from his drawing to make furniture. Of Heppelwhite we had heard not at all, although twelve arm-chairs said to be his had been by some one thought to be worth around seven hundred dollars. Nor of any Sheraton did we know, though one of his sideboards and a "pair of Sheraton knife urns" fetched the incredible sum of five hundred and fifty dollars. Chippendale was another name unfamiliar in Slocum County, but Chippendale, it seemed, had once made a wing book-case which was now worth two hundred ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

... Lovers of the Genuine Antiques should not fail to see one of the best-selected Stocks of Genuine Antique Furniture, &c., including Stuart, Charles II., Tudor, Jacobean, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 10, 1917 • Various

... sitting in the Sheraton armchair at the writing-table that matched it, the man with the black head and square pale face and heavy muscular shoulders, who looked up from among his papers and notebooks with the receiver of a telephone at his ear, rose to his feet, and came to them with a kind, outstretched hand. Saxham ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... lived in extreme discomfort." She found herself pitying Chester Hunt, but just then in the raid she was making on the shelves of the Sheraton sideboard she found two porridge bowls, one decorated with chickens and one with rabbits, which brought Polly and Peter back so vividly that her incipient pity was turned to rage. After that she wielded her brush and broom with pitiless fury. She ...
— Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman • Emma Speed Sampson



Words linked to "Sheraton" :   article of furniture, piece of furniture, furniture



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