bouillotte table

bouillotte table ExamplesWord Origin noun French Furniture.

1. a small round table of the 18th century, having around its top a gallery within which a bouchon could be set for the playing of card games.

Origin of bouillotte table French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill(ir) to boil1 + -otte noun suffix Examples from the Web for bouillotte table Historical Examples of bouillotte table

Arthur promised to say nothing about it, and soon forgot the whole affair in the excitement of a bouillotte-table.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848

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