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divan

mastery

/dɪˈvæn/noun

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What does 'divan' mean in this sentence?

Startled at such an unaccountable event, they sat in close divan; and concluding that the case was in all respects unnatural and prodigious, desired that a messenger might be immediately dispatched for some male practitioner in the art of midwifery.