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noun

Tabouret n.

Same as Taboret.

A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; so called from its resemblance to a drum.

An embroidery frame.

Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.

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Etymology of 'Tabouret'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tabouret" Quotes from Famous Books

... man, A Greek perhaps, or Arabian. And this giant negro is rhythmically swaying With the rhythm of the camel's neck up and down. He seems to be singing, rollicking, playing; His ivory teeth are glistening, the Greek is listening To the negro keeping time like a tabouret. And what cares he for Memphis town, Merneptah the bloody, or Books of the Dead, Pyramids, philosophies of madness or dread? A tune is in his heart, a reality: The camel, the desert are things that be, He's a negro slave, but his heart ...

— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters

... my dear," responded the Wolf. And when the child entered he said: "Put the filet and the little pot of foie gras on the gold tabouret, and come and lie ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... fell on a tabouret that stood near his bed. On it lay a withered rose and half a dozen jeweled rings. The rose he had never seen before. The rings he was almost sure he had seen ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

... commodious table with a large reading lamp. Beside the table was the big easy chair in which Morgan always sat, and where many of the solutions of difficult criminal problems had been worked out by him. Just across from this easy chair, and within reach of an outstretched hand, stood a tabouret, holding the telephone. ...

— The Sheridan Road Mystery • Paul Thorne

... shadow outside I could see and hear all that passed within. There were only two persons there, and I smiled a little to myself at Le Brusquet's caution, for one was pretty Mademoiselle Davila, seated demurely on a tabouret, and the other was a fair-haired boy of sixteen or so, who stood with a red face and an uncomfortable air ...

— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats

Words linked to "Tabouret" : taboret, stool