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Tabouret   Listen
noun
Tabouret  n.  
1.
Same as Taboret.
2.
A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; so called from its resemblance to a drum.
3.
An embroidery frame.
Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.





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"Tabouret" Quotes from Famous Books



... of American society. You shall find it lurking amongst worsteds and flower-patterns, and very often preferred to the pretty work that tasks a far prettier eye: or, stepping into the verandah to see a steamer go by, you shall pick it up from a tabouret, where it lies with a pearl-knife in its uncut pages, and the breezes playing with its parted leaves—evidently the immediate relic of some startled and disappearing fair one. Going south or west, you ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... answered softly. 'I came on purpose to stay with you.' The little one has partly lost her wits, I thought, but I said nothing, and the stranger trotted after me into my own parlour, just as a tame lamb or a little dog might have done. She took her seat on a tabouret at my knee, and ate her spiced cake and sipped her chocolate with a pretty, modest air. Just so was my Gracie wont to sit, and even as I thought of her my dim eyes grew dimmer still with tears. At last they fell, and some ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... reason enough," he acquiesced. "You wouldn't give me another if I sat here all night imploring you." He sat close to her on a low tabouret, and as he spoke his fingers lightly touched the hair that fell a little over her forehead. She liked the touch of his fingers through her hair, and closed her ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin


Words linked to "Tabouret" :   taboret


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