Recamier

[ rey-kuh-myey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a backless day bed of the Directoire and Empire periods, having raised ends of equal height.

Récamier

[ rey-ka-myey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Madame Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777–1849, French social leader in the literary and political circles of Paris.

1920–25; after Madame Récamier ( def )

The Prince of Prussia would have married her, if he could have effected her divorce from M. Recamier.

These thoughts were suggested by a large engraving representing Madame Recamier in her boudoir.

He used to stroke his tail when he desired Madame Recamier to know that he was tired.

The groom was Jacques Recamier—by profession a powerful banker, by choice a middle-class Lothario.

Recamier had been an intimate friend of the Bernards, forever at their house, since a year or so before Jeanne had been born.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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