étagère

[ ey-tah-zhair, ey-tuh-; French ey-ta-zher ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural é·ta·gères [ey-tah-, zhairz, ey-t, uh, -, ey-t, a, -, zher].

étagère

/ etaʒɛr /

Borrowed into English from French around 1850–55

C19: from French, from étage shelf; see stage

He did not stumble or wind himself up in the curtain or upset the bowl of goldfish on the slight étagère by the sofa.

Looking about me, I saw on a kind of étagère scores of half-burned candles in candlesticks, as if there had been a ball.

Near it was an étagère, on which were candles; these also were found melted completely away.

The lustres of the chandelier are bright, and clusters of rubies leap in the bohemian glasses on the étagère.

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