单词 | privilege of the tabouret |
释义 | > as lemmasprivilege of the tabouret a. A low seat or stool, without back or arms, for one person: so called originally from its shape. privilege of the tabouret: see quot. 1656. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] shamblec825 stool1390 tabouret1656 tambouret1658 mora1818 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tabouret, a pincase; also a little low stool for a childe to sit on. In France the priviledge of the Tabouret is of a stool for some particular Ladies to sit in the Queens presence. 1679 tr. M. Mancini Apol. 30 I had the priviledge of sitting on a Tabourette in the Queens presence. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 191 Soon as a Stranger comes, she'll him embrace, Near her proud Person, on a tabret Place. 1858 D. Masson Life Milton (1859) I. 704 A studied slight put upon Lady Scudamore by refusing her the honour of the tabouret,—i.e. the right of being seated—on the occasion of a visit of ceremony to the French queen. 1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 60 He had bought a new easel and two rush-bottomed tabourets. < as lemmas |
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