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Definition of Recamier
1. a backless couch [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recamier
Literary usage of Recamier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1876)
"recamier said herself: "There is a certain taste in perfect friendship, ...
recamier and Ampere. lie was only twenty years old, and she twenty-seven years ..."
2. The Book of Friendship by Samuel McChord Crothers (1910)
"He was first introduced to Madame recamier, in 1812, by their common friend, ...
The friendship which Madame recamier gave this lonesome, sad, expansive, ..."
3. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"Madame recamier sat on one side of the fireplace, the others round in a largish
circle. ... Madame recamier spoke little, but threw in an occasional word, ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1876)
"During the mid-day halt, as well as in the evening, they talked of what they had
seen, they read * Madame recamier and her Friends. ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"We catch satisfactory glimpses of the matchless recamier at her own fireside,
not only as the regnant queen of her famous salon, but in the slippered ..."
6. Women of History: The Lives of Women who in All Ages, All Lands and in All by Willis John Abbot (1913)
"recamier familiar to the present generation than anything she ever did, ...
recamier have won the fame or the measure of immortality to which she attained. ..."
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