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Originally Posted by Patricia

I always thought that a davenport was a desk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_desk

Read further in that wiki entry.

The Davenport desk should not be confused with the Davenport sofa, which is usually a modern combination sofa and bed or an antique form of upholstered sofa based on a design conceived at the beginning of the 20th century by a Boston company called Irving and Casson and Davenport

Both seem to be correct definitions.