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English translation: chaise-longue

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16:39 Jan 5, 2011

French to English translations [PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances / Furniture

French term or phrase: méridienne

Hello,
This is from a short furniture advertisement (France).
Complete sentence:
Avec les nouveaux canapés et leur méridiennes, XXX innove en alliant design et confort

Sue Crocker KudoZ activity Questions: 250 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 223 Canada
Local time: 09:00

English translation:chaise-longue

Explanation:
The types I've encountered very much reseemble this sort of thing; though I freely acknowledge that this is a term more usually applied to period rather than contemporary furniture.

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Note added at 1 day17 hrs (2011-01-07 10:29:25 GMT)
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While thanking all the peers who've kindly added their 'agrees' below, I would just like to add that, although I do believe chaise-longue is a viable option for a méridienne as a stand-alone item of furniture, one ought to take note of Gail B's point, that this appears to be referring in fact to sofas, and the 'méridienne' part of these — a sort of 'lounger' stuck on the end, making it a 'not-quite-a-corner' sofa. I'm not convinced that 'chaise-longue' would actually be appropriate for describing this sub-element of a complete sofa.

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Note added at 1 day17 hrs (2011-01-07 10:31:56 GMT)
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Here's a typical example of a canapé + méridienne — note that it's not quite a corner sofa, as it only has an end arm, and not a proper back:

http://www.but.fr/produits/31511/Angle-meridienne-Gauche-GAL...

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Tony M
France
Local time: 13:30

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Summary of answers provided

2 +6

chaise-longue

Tony M

5 +2

meridienne

Annie Estéphan

one-arm sofa or single-arm sofa

philippe vandevivere

sofas and corner sofas

Gail Bond

fainting couch

Marco Solinas

Summary of reference entries provided

archives

Stéphanie Soudais

méridienne

cc in nyc

Answers

5 mins confidence:

fainting couch

Explanation:
See the pictures towards the bottom of this document: http://antiques.about.com/od/antiquechairstyles/tp/All-About...

Marco Solinas
Local time: 04:30
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

6 mins confidence:

one-arm sofa or single-arm sofa

Explanation:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-03/features/sc-co...

philippe vandevivere
France
Local time: 13:30
Native speaker of:

French

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

meridienne

Explanation:
It's the same word :

English :meridienne
French : méridienne n. f.

Définition :
The day-bed or couch, designed in the antique style was an extremely fashionable piece of Empire furniture. Especially characteristic was the day-bed having two gracefully outscrolled ends which were either of equal or unequal height and the méridienne having outscrolled ends of unequal height designed with a back panel.

Annie Estéphan
Canada
Local time: 07:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French

1 hr confidence:

sofas and corner sofas

Explanation:
Just a suggestion: a méridienne can be, as Tony rightly says, a chaise-longue when it's a standalone item of furniture, often in plush velvet with curvy lines. But it can also refer to the left- or right-hand sofa sections that you can buy separately to create corner sofa units (canapés d'angle). Without an image or further description, it's hard to tell. Since the text says 'canapés et leurs méridiennes' I wondered whether it referred to this instead.

Reference: http://www.laredoute.fr/Search/SearchResults.aspx?SearchType...

Gail Bond
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

chaise-longue

Tony M
France
Local time: 13:30
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 96

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Ségolène Neilson

1 hr

-> Merci, Ségolène !

agree

Sarah Puchner: yes, in the US a "chaise lounge." You can see all sorts, including contemporary, here: http://bit.ly/hpqCNV :

2 hrs

-> Thanks, Sarah!

agree

gallagy2: according to 1 of CC's links, a meridienne "is a cross between a sofa and a chaise longue", but this is really what I'd call this piece

4 hrs

-> Thanks, Gallagy!

agree

philgoddard: It always drives me mad when I see it spelled 'chaise lounge' in the US, but it's so widely used that we just have to grin and bear it.

4 hrs

-> Thanks, Phil! And even in the UK, I've usually heard it pronounced 'chaise longe'

agree

Wordeffect: Now even just "chaise" - oh dear!

18 hrs

-> Thanks, W/E! oh dear indeed!

agree

Catharine Cellier-Smart: definitely

1 day16 hrs

-> Thanks, Catharine!

Reference comments

2 mins

Reference: archives

Reference information:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/other/651174-mer...

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/furniture_househ...

Stéphanie Soudais
France
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

13 mins

Reference: méridienne

Reference information:
Méridienne seems to be moving into the English lexicon, with Anglicized pronunciation (actually Americanized on the first reference.

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meridienne
Reference: http://antiques.about.com/od/antiquechairstyles/a/Meridienne...

cc in nyc
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 7

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Jan 5, 2011 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Term asked	méridienne (in this context => méridienne

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