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furniture engineered for two people to pretend they need to sit this close.
original purposesized for one woman's enormous hoop skirt
name shiftbecame romantic only in the 19th century
tete-a-teteS-shaped versions sat couples facing opposite directions
sizetechnically a two-seater under 71 inches wide
dating ritualchaperoned courtship's awkwardly intimate compromise seat