bouillotte table

noun

French Furniture.

1. a small round table of the 18th century, having around its top a gallery within which a bouchon could be set for the playing of card games.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bouillotte table¹

< French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill ( ir ) to boil ¹ + -otte noun suffix

Example Sentences

There was a vacant seat at a bouillotte table, and he took it, saying to himself: "That woman is not likely to follow me here."

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It was with some difficulty we succeeded in approaching the bouillotte table, where, to judge from the stakes, very high play was going forward.

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The company received my sally with a discreet laugh, and their looks were centered on a guest who made the fifth at a bouillotte table where they had just stopped playing.

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With these words the friends parted; General Montcornet made his way to the cardroom, where he saw the Comte de Soulanges sitting at a bouillotte table.

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