Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A depository or museum in which valuable furniture, tapes-tries, and the like are kept.

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Examples

  • A fine Louis XVI. bed from the _garde-meuble_ was in the alcove.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • Ravrio, -- we have been examining it, -- ornamented with palm-leaves and swans 'necks, borne to the Élysée with old easy-chairs in the carriages of the _garde-meuble_; the Conservative Senate restitched and regilded, the Council of State of 1806 refurbished and new-bordered with fresh lace; the old Corps Législatif patched up, with new nails and fresh paint, minus Lainé and plus Morny!

    Napoleon the Little Victor Hugo 1843

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