rout-seats

Updated: June 10, 2025

The largest room in the house was pleasingly ornamented with blue calico roses, plaid tulips, and other equally natural-looking artificial flowers, the work of the young ladies themselves. The carpet was taken up, the folding-doors were taken down, the furniture was taken out, and rout-seats were taken in.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people