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
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, and the delightful See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

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
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

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
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

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

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

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