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‖ bergère|bɛːrʒɛːr|
Also 8 bergier, burgair, burjair, etc.
[Fr., lit. ‘shepherdess’.]
1. A large easy chair of a style fashionable in the eighteenth century (see quot. 1952); also, a kind of couch.
1762Ince & Mayhew Univ. Syst. Houshold Furn. Pl. lx, Burjairs. Ibid. 8/1 Two Designs of Birjairs, or half Couches. 1773in E. Singleton Social N.Y. (1902) 83 All sorts of..settees, couches, burgairs. 1784–87in J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. (1952) 141 A large and handsome mahogany bergier, stuffed back in green morocco. 1803T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 19 Arm-chair, No. 5, is a bergere, having a caned back and arms. Sometimes the seats are caned, having loose cushions. 1814M. Edgeworth Patronage I. v. 145 Miss Hauton seated herself..upon a bergère. 1934H. Nicolson Curzon: Last Phase 299 There were palms in the room upon high white stands, and bergère chairs, and little round tables with glass ashtrays. 1942N. Marsh Death & Dancing Footman ii. 27 The armchairs and the bergére [sic] sofas. 1942J. Cary To be a Pilgrim cxlvi. 324 The armchair, a tattered bergère in white and gilt. 1952J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 141 Bergère, an armchair with canework sides, back, and seat, with a loose cushion on the seat, or an upholstered seat.
2. bergère hat, a large straw hat.
1873Young Englishwoman July 339/1 Bergère hat with gauze veil. 1905Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 8/1 A pretty bergère hat made of fine straw. |