Separate
A separate, secluded area in a bar or restaurant is called a chambre séparée or just a séparée .
This term is French, but does not appear in this use in French. In French the same room is called “cabinet particulier”. According to Wolf Graf Baudissin and Wilhelm Spemann, "the German says chambre séparée, while the French never use this expression, but only knows a chambre particulière" . Thus Séparée is a sham Gallicism .
A cabinet particulier in a French restaurant in an illustration from 1863
Séparée in a hotel in San Diego , 2009
Séparées in "The Grand Mirror Tent", a mirror tent from around 1900, here in 2004
Web links
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Wiktionary: Séparée - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Reiner, Stilkunst: a textbook of German prose , 2nd, revised edition, Munich 2004, p. 369.
- ↑ Entry in Merriam-Webster ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Baudissin, Spemann: Spemann's golden book of custom. A home customer for everyone. Berlin, Stuttgart, 1901, p. 483
