| 词汇 | divan |
| 词源 | divan. Divan has an involved but logical history. Originating as a Persian word meaning “a brochure,” it came to mean, in or- der: “a collection of poems”; “a register”; “a military pay book”; “an account book”; “a room in which an account book was kept”; “an account office or custom house”; “a court”; “a great hall”; and, finally, by 1597, “the chief piece of furniture in a great hall”! |
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