Canapé (furniture) Frequently matching chairs were made to go with it. Precious hardwoods such as walnut, cherry, and mahogany were often used in its construction. Currently the term is used in world furniture design and retail as a variation on "sofa", except when antiques or reproductions of 18th century designs are concerned. Canapé (furniture) A canapé is a piece of furniture similar to a couch, and is meant to describe an elegant sofa made out of elaborately carved wood with wooden legs, and upholstered seats, back, and armrests that seats three, that emerged from France in the 18th century. A style created
Gaelic type ḃig, <br>meaning "A maiden of great appetite with an intensely white, dense spade went through my good little porker’s hat".<br> The second sentence (bottom line) reads:<br>Duibhlinn/Ceanannas an cló a úsáidtear anseo,<br> meaning "Duibhlinn/Ceannanas is the font used here".<br> The second sentence uses the short forms of the letters "r" and "s"; the first uses the long forms. See: Long s and R rotunda. Gaelic type Gaelic type (sometimes called Irish character, Irish type, or Gaelic script) is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Classical Gaelic. It was widely used from the 16th until the mid-18th century (Scotland)