Voorbeelden van 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.

• The waiting room and attached toilets are still furnished, with superb divans, recliners bidets and washbasins, all in various stages of disrepair.

• In the same direction is the pavilion, raised recently to accommodate larger divans.

• A woman bought a divan bedstead for her daughter, a schoolgirl.

• On the advice of the doctor the divan was opened, when it was found to be stuffed with wood shavings such as are used for packing eggs.

• The rent paid by the farmer under the contract which expired early in 1910 was $1,452,000, to which must be added receipts from divan licences, which amounted in 1909 to $1,860.

• Such meetings were known as "ayak divan" (literally: meeting with folk).

• To complete his punishment, the city was hit by a high tax and its divan was replaced by a military commission.