entrance-saloon

Updated: May 12, 2025

But for Corsicans they were well-to-do, and their house has an air of antique dignity. The chairs of the entrance-saloon have been literally stripped of their coverings by enthusiastic visitors; the horse-hair stuffing underneath protrudes itself with a sort of comic pride, as if protesting that it came to be so tattered in an honourable service.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series