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recamier
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n. An old-fashioned couch with headrest and footrest.
Usage examples of recamier.
Dupuytren and Recamier entered into a quarrel in the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Unerringly, he pulled one from the shelf and walked heavily to his study, where he reclined his bulk on a leather Recamier doctor's couch made in Philadelphia in 1840.
There was a couch of the type familiar in the best-known picture of Madame Recamier, with one arm and a partial back.