Used in a Sentence

chesterfield

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chesterfield.

Editorial note

When Steve1989 smokes a Camel or Chesterfield from the 1940s and describes the experience on YouTube, all I want in the world is to smoke one of those little sticks of ecstasy.

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Quick take

A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of chesterfield gathered in one view.

noun

A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

noun

A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

noun

Any of a number of settlements:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chesterfield.

noun

A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

noun

A market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

noun

Any of a number of settlements:

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Example sentences

1

When Steve1989 smokes a Camel or Chesterfield from the 1940s and describes the experience on YouTube, all I want in the world is to smoke one of those little sticks of ecstasy.

2

Compared with the standard Chesterfield or Cross Punch leather seating, Vescin feels softer and more premium.

3

The place was gorgeous, an old mansion on its own land, peacocks in the grounds, Chesterfield leather sofas in reception etc.

4

Apparently Chesterfield admired it and left it on his table for visitors to read.

5

You can't fit a chesterfield sofa because the chassis isn't designed for that.

6

Words like toque and chesterfield draw blank looks in the PNW.

7

Lord Chesterfield himself could hardly have been more gracious than this mounted policeman, who, only a week previously, had threatened to have the law on me.

8

Lots of economic activity goes into supporting Chesterfield fences.

9

He's a big figure here in Chesterfield too.

10

After being burned by this many times, finally got a couple Chesterfield style sofas from Costco about 4 years ago and everything about them has been rock solid.

11

Never ask ol' Chesterfield about his fence.

12

I might like my car to allow me to install a chesterfield sofa as the driver's seat, but I don't complain that ford has locked down my choice of seats into a walled garden.

Quote examples

1

Perhaps tangentially related Re: “Chesterfield’s plug", Chesterton’s fence came to mind today while mulling over this sort of “forgetfulness” (which tends toward outright negligence) in my own circles.

2

Example of advise used as a noun, a snowclone most of us have probably encountered: An X's advise to his/her Y (based on the eponymously authored 1811 "Lord Chesterfield's Advise to His Son"), which loses its impact in print if you don't use the not-very-archaic spelling.

3

"according to those sympathetic to the university, de Chesterfield threw his wooden drinking vessel at de Croydon's head; those sympathetic to the townsfolk say the student beat him around the head with the pot." This is 6 centuries ago..

4

I just want to be like the Chesterfield-flinging version of Magneto, from X-Men!" And then we just nod, cross off the potential requirement about uploading a human brain into a couch, and try to guess what else they really wanted, but cannot adequately explain.

Proper noun examples

1

Maybe Claude thought you wanted to model this church in Chesterfield?

2

They don't want a Chesterfield; they want plywood and glue.

3

Our present sofa is an ox-blood 2 seater Chesterfield-type one bought for €400 from a piercing shop which had it for waiting customers for only a brief while.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use chesterfield in a sentence?

When Steve1989 smokes a Camel or Chesterfield from the 1940s and describes the experience on YouTube, all I want in the world is to smoke one of those little sticks of ecstasy.

What does chesterfield mean?

A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.

What part of speech is chesterfield?

chesterfield is commonly used as noun.