Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

FFlores wrote:
>
> Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
>
> > I use davenport, but only for huge, monstrous, overstuffed things like
> > the one that inhabited my grandmother's house.
>
> I have to ask (my dictionary is perplexedly looking at me), what
> on earth is a davenport??
>
        For what I've understood, it's a kind of sofa. am I right? If not,
don't blame me, I'm no native English speaker! :)

> --Pablo Flores
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