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chesterfield

chesterfield (chĕsʹtər-fēld) noun

1. A single- or double-breasted overcoat, usually with concealed buttons and a velvet collar.

2. Chiefly Northern California & Canada. A large, overstuffed sofa with upright armrests.

 

[After a 19th-century earl of Chesterfield.]

Regional Note: Chesterfield, a term for any type of sofa, was probably brought down from Canada, where it is common. According to Craig M. Carver in American Regional Dialects, this regionalism is "unique to northern California." The word probably comes from the name of a 19th-century earl of Chesterfield and originally referred "specifically to a couch with upright armrests at either end." It appears to have come into use in Canada around 1903 and in Northern California at about the same time.