re·ca·mier

(rā′kəm-yā′, rā-käm-)

A couch or daybed typically having a high curved headboard and a low or absent footboard.

[After Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamierwho was depicted reclining on such a couch in a portrait by Jacques Louis David.]

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récamier

(rekamje)

(Furniture) a chaise longue of the type that the famous literary Frenchwoman Madame Récamier (1777–1849) liked to lie on

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re•ca•mier

(ˌreɪ kəˈmyeɪ)

n.

a usu. backless couch having curved arms often of unequal height.

[1920–25; after Madame Récamier]

Ré•ca•mier

(ˌreɪ kæmˈyeɪ)

n.

Madame (Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard), 1777–1849, influential French salon hostess.

References in classic literature

That's about it, isn't it, Madame Recamier?" asked Laurie with a quizzical look at Amy.

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With all this feasting and flirting and merry exchange of wit Bogle's came mighty near being a salon, with Aileen for its Madame Recamier.

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Le souffle at Mont Thabor and le recamier at Recamier are the best places to get your dose of these light clouds of sinful sweetness dusted with a little snowfall of sugar.

Exploring the best grub around the world

Recamier, "The f-deformed Jaynes-Cummings model and its nonlinear coherent states," Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol.

Completeness and Nonclassicality of Coherent States for Generalized Oscillator Algebras

Saul Bellow ends his 1964 novel, Herzog, with the eponymous hero "stretched out" on a "Recamier couch" ([1964] 2003, 371), classier cousin to the "malodorous sofa" (6) on which we find him near the book's beginning, halt in and half out of life, as it were.

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ROCKFISH CFVICHE TOSTADAS SERVES 4/50 MINUTES At Ceviche House, located about 7 miles from the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market, chef Juan Carlos Recamier serves a dozen different ceviches, many of them with fish from the market.

Ocean to table

In 1892, the French biologists Lobstein and Recamier also speculated with the notion of tumors embryonic origin [54].

Cancer Is to Embryology as Mutation Is to Genetics: Hypothesis of the Cancer as Embryological Phenomenon

Stretching of anal sphincter, the traditional Lord's anal dilatation was described by Recamier in 1838.

Comparison of lateral internal sphincterotomy and controlled intermittent anal dilatation in the treatment of chronic anal fissures: a prospective, randomised study