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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ENCOIGNURE , in See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, literally the See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle, or return, formed by the junction of two walls. The word is now chiefly used to designate a small See also:

ARMOIRE

armoire, commode, See also:

CABINET

cabinet or See also:

CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup-See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board made to See also:

FIT

fit a corner; a See also:

CHAISE (the French for " chair," through a transference from a "sedan-chair" to a wheeled vehicle)

chaise encoignure is called in See also:

ENGLISH

English a three-cornered See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair. In its origin the thing, like the word, is See also:

French, and the delightful See also:

Louis Quinze or Louis Seize encoignure in See also:

LACQUER, or LACICER

lacquer or in See also:

MAHOGANY

mahogany elaborately mounted in gilded See also:

BRONZE

bronze is not the least alluring piece of the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

period of French furniture. It was made in a vast variety of forms so far as the front was concerned; in other respects it was strictly limited by its destination. As a See also:

RULE

rule these delicate and dainty receptacles were in pairs and placed in opposite angles; more often than not the See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top was formed of a slab of coloured See also:

MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble. ENCYCLICAL (from See also:

LATE

Late See also:

LAT

Lat. encyclicus, for encyclius=Gr. EyK(MKX oS, from iv and KUKXOS, " a circle "), an ecclesiastical See also:

EPISTLE

epistle intended for See also:

general circulation, now almost exclusively used of such letters issued by the See also:

pope. The forms encyclica and encyclic are sometimes, but more rarely, used.

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