recamier

noun

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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry recamier (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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