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Britannica 11th

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Enco1Gnure

Britannica 11th

ENCO1GNURE, in furniture, literally the angle, or return, formed by the junction of two walls. The word is now chiefly used to designate a small armoire, commode, cabinet or cupboard made to fit a corner; a chaise encoignure is called in English a three-corner ...

Vol. 9, pp. 369-369 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0