Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. seating furniture
10. multiple-seating furniture

Narrower term/s

• indiscrets
• love seats
• chair-back settees
• Windsor settees
• marquises (settees)
• Knole settees

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to long seats with a back and usually arms; large enough for two or more persons. The terms sofa and settee are virtually interchangeable in 20th-century usage but there is a distinction between the two; a settee is less fully upholstered than a sofa and can even be unupholstered.