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Examples
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One woman read up on everything and put on silks and jewels and perfumes and dimmed the lamps and set liqueurs and cigarettes upon the tabourette and caused the flames to dance low in the open hearth.
A Book Without A Title George Jean Nathan 1920
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Lee drew up a tabourette for his glass and ash tray.
Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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At the same time an aged Chinaman carrying a prayer wheel entered the place and after prostrating himself devoutedly placed the machine on a sort of low stool or tabourette and began turning it slowly, muttering.
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Between the bed and the mantel is a small tabourette on which are a book and a candle-stick with the candle half burned.
The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 Eugene Walter 1907
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And then seeing the note lying upon the tabourette, she came running with little childish footsteps.
The Secret Witness George Gibbs 1906
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And greatly excited at the thought of intrigue, brought a tabourette which she placed before Marishka, then found paper, ink and envelopes and squatted upon a pillow, watching eagerly over
The Secret Witness George Gibbs 1906
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She was for trying it on at once and, thus for the moment relieved of Yeva's scrutiny, Marishka bent over the tabourette, pen in hand.
The Secret Witness George Gibbs 1906
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Sylvia had sat down close beside him on a tabourette; there was a pleasing, far-away look in her eyes, riveted though they were to the floor.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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