Examples of divan

• The divan was the first room entered by bathers who would divest themselves of their clothes in dressing rooms or stalls.

• A wooden board between the mattress and a sprung divan base is an acceptable alternative to a sprung mattress on a slatted wooden base.

• The bather was required to pass back through the tepidarium and into the divan in order to finish the treatment and exit the premises.

• I am doing everything possible to improve production of divans, but at the moment there is a serious shortage of covering materials.

• At the same time it was stated that no more suppression of opium divans would take place until the year 1910.

• Opium divans are absolutely abolished.

• He closed the opium divans.

• All the boudoirs of that generation were garnished with divans.