Chesterfield, Sofa, Couch, Settee

July 14th, 2008 by admin

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  1. Dave Ross:

    April 15th, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Could duo or dufoo be related to duvet?

  2. Aife N.:

    October 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    “Dufo” might just be a misspelling of duvet. Interestingly, when I Googled this, Dufo means both (somehow) a dufus and a person that does amazing things for their friends/family. I wouldn’t take this too seriously-Urban Dictionary (where I got this from) was the first result; then this page, then several sites offering to find “Dufo” or to make “Dufo”.

  3. Sofas:

    July 15th, 2011 at 6:09 am

    Oh it’s odd that you mention this – I’ve just purchased a top quality sofa set for my lounge and have to say I absolutely love it! It’s a stunning 3 item set, in brown floral design. Just felt the urge to share that :)

  4. Carole Bender-Resnick:

    December 20th, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    In Canada, we call a couch a chesterfield.

  5. Chester Field:

    March 16th, 2012 at 10:25 pm

    No no no. In Canada we do not call a couch a chesterfield. In Canada OLD PEOPLE call it a chesterfield!! :)

  6. Radamus:

    April 4th, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    I agree with the above chesterfield comment; yes, my nana used to say chesterfield, but I generally say couch.. even sofa is pretty rare nowadays.

    The Canadian military has an affection for the word settee, which generally was observed to be an armless couch.

  7. Ross:

    April 6th, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    I do not like the word couch and sofa is still used. Any furniture store has signs saying sofa and chair, not couch and chair. And specialty stores are not called Couchland but Sofaland. But I think terminology has to do with where in North America you live. I looked up this site because I heard a Bare Naked Ladies song today and was reminded that they use the word chesterfield.

  8. Kelley Wright:

    April 24th, 2012 at 6:19 am

    My father used to call the couch something that sounded like dovino or davino, almost like domino. he was born in 1921 in the Midwest. I have never heard this word used by anyone else. Might be related to the above question.

  9. Shannon:

    March 8th, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    I have family who grew up in Detroit in the 1910′s-60′s. According to them, the dufo was a couch with a “hide-a-bed”. The bed would fold, or “do fold”, into a couch. That’s how it was explained to me.

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