recamier

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noun

An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.

OriginFrench récamier →
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Meanings

nounrecamier (plural recamiers)

plural recamiers · alternative récamier

  1. An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.

    When it read five thirty and no one had come into the room, I got off the recamier and quietly started to work.

    2008, Linda L. Richards, Death Was the Other Woman: A Mystery, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Frenchrécamier
  2. Englishrecamier

Borrowed from French récamier, named after the 19th century French socialite Juliette Récamier.

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Cite this entry
APA

recamier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recamier

MLA

“recamier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recamier. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recamier,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recamier.

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