Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small round table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small round table used for mounting vases or objects of art. Sometimes made in bronze or silver: usually with a single stem and tripod base.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a small round table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small round
table often used to hold light objects likecandles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small round table
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At last the house – keeper brought forward a little round table, such as once was called a gueridon, on which was a cup of strong mocha, the perfume of which filled the room.
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At last the house-keeper brought forward a little round table, such as once was called a gueridon, on which was a cup of strong mocha, the perfume of which filled the room.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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Philippe I is a mini-collection of 'gueridon' or small tables and café tables, the evolution of a formal language launched in the Marie Antoinette Pop Collection, presented by
NOTCOT 2010
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A late 18th-century golden-bronze gueridon a small table used by waiters when serving with cupids supporting the tray, attributed to the renowned furniture maker Adam Weisweiler, is estimated at €70,000-€100,000.
The Soul of a French Palace Margaret Studer 2011
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Highlights of the collection include Pablo Picasso's "Instruments de musique sur un gueridon," a blue-gray Cubist work painted just after the outbreak of World War I that is estimated to sell for at least $38.8 million.
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The night's rare disappointment was Pablo Picasso's "Instruments de musique sur un gueridon," a blue-gray Cubist work painted just after the outbreak of World War I that was priced to sell for at least $32 million but stalled at $26.9 million after lackluster bidding.
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008
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