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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  

[ray-kuh-myay] / ˌreɪ kəˈmjeɪ /

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  

[ray-ka-myay] / reɪ kaˈmjeɪ /

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2018

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As the horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, at seventy-two, died Jeanne Recamier, virgin heartbreaker, whose very name was for half a century the synonym for absolute beauty and flawless purity.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

Portraits were up when I visited — Alexander the Great marching into Babylon; a sly-looking Louis XIV; and Madame Récamier, an 18th century socialite, on her deathbed.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

On one wall hangs a painting, by a high-school friend, of a coffin that has been bent in half and placed atop a chaise longue, in the manner of Magritte’s “Perspective: Madame Récamier by David.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015

We give the narrative, however, of this very interesting interview in the words of Madame Récamier: Interview at the Coliseum.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

But, in the interim, Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël had dined with the Duchess of St. Leu, at her estate a few leagues from Paris.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

You said yourself that Madame Récamier was horribly expensive, so I left her and went to Jacquelin's—just to save your pocket—— Harry.

From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Henry Arthur Jones