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• Recamier
  Recamier

  noun

  a backless day bed of the Directoire and Empire periods, having raised ends of equal height.
• Récamier
  Récamier

  noun

  Madame Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777–1849, French social leader in the literary and political circles of Paris.

Recamier

¹ American  

[rey-kuh-myey] / ˌreɪ kəˈmyeɪ /

noun

1. a backless day bed of the Directoire and Empire periods, having raised ends of equal height.

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Récamier ² American  

[rey-ka-myey] / reɪ kaˈmyeɪ /

noun

1. Madame Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777–1849, French social leader in the literary and political circles of Paris.

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Etymology

Origin of Recamier

1920–25; after Madame Récamier ( def. )

Example Sentences

One particularly potent scene focuses on the 19th Century portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Recamier.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2018

Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool of doctors who would put medical needs above bureaucratic procedures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Biafra he was influenced by the Christian humanism of another French doctor, Max Recamier, who argued that the importance of saving an individual life transcended politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Recamier died, Chateaubriand formally asked Jeanne's hand in marriage.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson