Definition of tabouret:

part of speech: noun

A small tabour; a cushioned stool highly ornamented.

Usage examples:

• It was a pleasanter sight to turn from this girl, who was even then weighing the price of her honour, to the cluster of fair faces around the tabouret of Madame Catherine, the King's sister, now the Duchesse de Bar. S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats in "The Chevalier d'Auriac".

• Gaston de Stainville sat on a tabouret at a respectful distance. Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy in "Petticoat Rule".

• I fell over a wicker tabouret in my delirium. Jack Crawford in "I Walked in Arden".

• And with an elegant and graceful flourish of the arm, he rose from his tabouret and immediately dropped on one knee at Madame's feet, offering her the letter and the map which he held. Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy in "Petticoat Rule".