0 a long, soft seat with a back and usually arms, on which more than one person can sit at the same time
1 a long, soft seat with a back and usually arms, large enough for two or more people to sit on; a couch
The children sat side by side on the sofa watching television.
I sat down on the sofa next to Barbara.
In these images and stories, the sofa was sometimes about the dangers of luxury and seduction.
The closest approximation of this circumstance in monolingual language production is the existence of synonym pairs such as sofa and couch.
Why were they not the natural occupants of the sofa, the platform of debauched and exotic sexuality?
