Recamier

[ rey-kuh-myey ]

/ ˌreɪ kəˈmyeɪ /

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noun

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

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Origin of Recamier

1920–25; after Madame Récamier

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Récamier

[ rey-ka-myey ]

/ reɪ kaˈmyeɪ /

noun

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

How to use Recamier in a sentence

The Prince of Prussia would have married her, if he could have effected her divorce from M. Recamier.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850|Various
These thoughts were suggested by a large engraving representing Madame Recamier in her boudoir.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century|Margaret Fuller Ossoli
He used to stroke his tail when he desired Madame Recamier to know that he was tired.
Concerning Cats|Helen M. Winslow
The groom was Jacques Recamier—by profession a powerful banker, by choice a middle-class Lothario.
Superwomen|Albert Payson Terhune

Recamier had been an intimate friend of the Bernards, forever at their house, since a year or so before Jeanne had been born.
Superwomen|Albert Payson Terhune