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recamier

recamier noun: an old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.

recamier: an old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest
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Noun

recamier (plural recamiers)

  1. An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.
    • When it read five thirty and no one had come into the room, I got off the recamier and quietly started to work.2008, Linda L. Richards, Death Was the Other Woman: A Mystery, →ISBN

Forms of recamier

pluralrecamiers
alternative formrécamier

Origin of recamier

Borrowed from French récamier, named after the 19th century French socialite Juliette Récamier.

Questions about recamier

What does recamier mean?
Recamier means an old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.
What part of speech is recamier?
Recamier is a noun.
What is the plural of recamier?
The plural of recamier is recamiers.

Words near recamier in the dictionary

  1. recam
  2. recamber
  3. recambered
  4. recambering
  5. recambers
  6. recamier
  7. recamiers
  8. recammed
  9. recamming
  10. recampaign
  11. recampaigned

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