ENFILADE: WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK

Ever wonder whether it's a Rococo or Régence? Louis XV or Louis Philippe? A Bergère or Fauteuil? Each week, we will highlight a word, term, or phrase to help identify antique furniture, periods, and styles.

ENFILADE 
en·fi·lade [en-fuh-leyd -lahd] 
noun [en-fuh-leyd -lahd]  
1.    Architecture. an interconnected group of rooms arranged usually in a row with each room opening into the next.
2.   Military. gunfire directed from a flanking position along the length of an enemy battle line.
verb (used with object), en·fi·lad·ed, en·fi·lad·ing.
1.    Military. to attack with an enfilade.
Origin:  1695–1705; < French, from enfiler to thread on a string, pierce from end to end, enfilade, from Old French, to thread, from en- 'in, on' + fil 'thread'.

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