How about "foyer"??
2006-08-27 15:07:31 · 29 answers · asked by Kid Pecatonica 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I have never used it! But my grandmother used to call her sofa the davenport. LOL. I still remember. "Get your feet off the davenport". Wow. But mostly if I hear davenport I think of Davenport, Iowa. (I grew up in Silvis, right outside East Moline, IL)
2006-08-27 15:10:56 · answer #1 · answered by makingthisup 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've known people, when I was a kid in the '50s and '60s, who used the word davenport all the time. I personally have never use the word, and don't really remember what piece of furniture it referred to. Foyer, though, I still use. In fact, I wouldn't know what else to call that open space you step into when entering some buildings.
2006-08-27 22:21:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Davenport - I asked my daughter about that Davenport boy that went to her high school. Foyer - I told someone my house has a foyer.
2006-08-27 22:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by Bowllynn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why just today. I asked my valet to move the davenport into the foyer because I kept bumping my shin on the leg of the davenport. Unwittingly the valet actually moved it the armoire into the foyer.
2006-08-27 22:11:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um davenport lol right now but before that probably never...foyer maybe about two months ago.
2006-08-27 22:13:06 · answer #5 · answered by CPSweetie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foyer -- all the time -- davenport, probably ages ago in a conversation with my grandma, who referred to her couch that way.
2006-08-27 22:11:14 · answer #6 · answered by Rvn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm it's been awhile, only used it because I graduated with a guy whose last name is Davenport. And Foyer I don't know that's been awhile too.
2006-08-27 22:09:49 · answer #7 · answered by Katie Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never used the word 'davenport'. We have a 'couch'.
As for the 'foyer', we have one so I use that word everyday.
2006-08-27 22:27:08 · answer #8 · answered by Patty Pooh Pooh Pie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last time I used the word davenport was actually yesterday but probably not in the sense you are thinking. I work in the ER and one of my patients last name was Davenport.
2006-08-27 22:13:47 · answer #9 · answered by kim_in_craig 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just now, when I read your question and said "wow, I haven't called a couch a davenport for a really long time" then I said "wow, I don't use the word foyer very often, 'cause should it be pronounced 'foy-er' or 'foy-ay'?
2006-08-27 22:13:40 · answer #10 · answered by just me 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋