0 a long, comfortable seat for more than one person that has no back or arms --
To complete his punishment, the city was hit by a high tax and its divan was replaced by a military commission.
Such meetings were known as "ayak divan" (literally: meeting with folk).
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.
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.
A woman bought a divan bedstead for her daughter, a schoolgirl.
In the same direction is the pavilion, raised recently to accommodate larger divans.
The waiting room and attached toilets are still furnished, with superb divans, recliners bidets and washbasins, all in various stages of disrepair.
All the boudoirs of that generation were garnished with divans.
