Baignoire

The shape recalls a baignoire , or bath—a form Cartier has featured for decades—and implies a sense of indulgence and delicacy also reflected in the name. ❋ Michael Clerizo (2011)

Terms & Expressions: une baignoire sabot = short tub for taking baths "assis" (seated) voir venir quelqu'un avec ses gros sabots = "to see someone coming" -- to see someone's true intentions in mother-in-law | Permalink ❋ Unknown (2010)

Assez grande quand meme avec une mini baignoire et un lavabo et assez d'espace pour bouger. ❋ Pinku-tk (2009)

And, most relevant to today, he was subject to what the French called “la baignoire,” the bathtub – and what the U.S. government, perhaps wishing to evoke a summer day at an amusement park with the family, calls waterboarding. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Partout voiture, canapé, assiette, baignoire (la frayeur de ma vie) ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

Terms & Expressions: une baignoire sabot = short tub for taking baths "assis" (seated) voir venir quelqu'un avec ses gros sabots = "to see someone coming" -- to see someone's true intentions ❋ Unknown (2005)

Au bout de quelques minutes ca fini par revenir alors je me tiens a la baignoire pour me soulever, ma mere m'aide a retourner a ma chambre. ❋ Pinku-tk (2006)

When I asked him to describe her he said you had her tucked away in a baignoire and he hadn't actually seen her; but he saw the tail of her cloak, and somehow knew from that that she was pretty. ❋ Unknown (1912)

At the theatre her vivacity sank into a breathless hush, and she sat intent in her corner of their baignoire, with the gaze of a neophyte about to be initiated into the sacred mysteries. ❋ Unknown (1912)

I sat alone and hidden at the back of a _baignoire_ in the auditorium. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

I had drawn up the golden grille, by which the occupants of a _baignoire_ may screen themselves from the curiosity of the _parterre_. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

She found no play too tedious, no _entr'acte_ too long, no _baignoire_ too hot, no tissue of incidents too complicated, no situation too unnatural and no sentiments too sublime. ❋ Henry James (1879)

When the second act was over our friends passed out of their _baignoire_ into those corridors of tribulation where the bristling _ouvreuse_, like ❋ Henry James (1879)

Voisin delayed so long to show herself that Mrs. Rooth, who wished to see the rest of the play, though she had sat it out on another occasion, expressed a returning relish for her corner of the _baignoire_ and gave her conductor the best pretext he could have desired for asking Basil ❋ Henry James (1879)