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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.  TRUMEAU
tru·meau [troo-moh; French try-moh] noun, plural tru·meaux [troo-mohz; French try-moh] 1. Architecture. the pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of a doorway, especially in a church. 2. an overmantel treatment of 18th century France consisting of a pier glass surmounted by an oil painting or decorative often carved panel. Origin: late 19th century < French: literally, 'calf of the leg'.
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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.  TABLE DE DRAPIER
tab·le·de·drap·ier [tah-bl-duh-drap-yay] noun [tah-bl-duh-drap-yay] 1. table of a cloth merchant Origin: 1325-75; <From Anglo-French; Old French drapier, equivalent to drap cloth + -ier 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.  ACANTHUS
a·can·thus [uh-kan-thuh s] noun [uh-kan-thuh s] 1. Plants. any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers. 2. Architecture. a design patterned after the leaves of one of these plants, used especially on the capitals of Corinthian columns. Origin: 1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-foot 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.  CHARCUTERIE
char·cu·te·rie [shahr-koo-tuh-ree, shahr-koo-tuh-ree; French shar-kytuh-ree] noun, plural char·cu·te·ries [shahr-koo-tuh-reez, shahr-koo-tuh-reez; French shar-kytuh-ree] 1. cooked, processed, or cured cold meats and meat products, originally and typically pork products, as sausages, pâtés, hams, etc. 2. a store where these products are sold. Origin: 1855–60; <French; Middle French chaircuterie, equivalent to chaircut(ier) charcutier + -erie-ery 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.  CABRIOLE
cab·ri·ole [kab-ree-ohl; French ka-bree-awl] noun, plural cab·ri·oles [kab-ree-ohlz; French ka-bree-awl] 1. Furniture. a type of furniture leg, a curved, tapering leg curving outward at the top and inward farther down so as to end in a round pad, the semblance of an animal's paw, or some other feature: used especially in the first half of the 18th century. 2. Ballet. a leap in which one leg is raised in the air and the other is brought up to beat against it. Also called cabriole leg. Origin: 1775–85; < French: from cabrioler to caper, leap like a goat; so called because modeled on leg of a capering animal (see cabriolet) 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.  RAFRAÎCHISSOIR
ra·fraî·chis·soir [ra-fre-shee-swar] noun [ra-fre-shee-swar] 1. a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates so that occupants of a room may self-serve themselves libations without outside interruption. Origin: < French, literally refresher 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.  BOUILLOTTE
bouil·lotte [boo-yot] noun [boo-yot] 1. an 18th century gambling card game that was so popular in France that a special table was created for play. Based on Brelan, it is regarded as one of the games that influenced open-card stud variation in poker. Origin: < French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill (ir) to boil + -otte noun suffix 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' |
Mimi Montgomery
When this self-described Francophile is not reading or writing about all things French, she's dreaming up charming new ways to showcase Lolo French Antiques et More or traveling to France with Lolo to buy delightful treasures for their store. Mimi, Lolo, and their new French Bulldog, Duke, live in Birmingham, AL. 
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