bouillotte table

bouillotte table

noun French Furniture.
a small round table of the 18th century, having around its top a gallery within which a bouchon could be set for the playing of card games.

Origin:
< French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill(ir) to boil1 + -otte noun suffix

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