repercuss

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In the mid-18th century, the wealthy laid their tables with ornate silver baskets called epergnes, long mirrored trays called plateaus, flowers, and candelabras.

From Slate • May 5, 2015

In the centre stood two large epergnes, heaped with fruits and flowers.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Noble epergnes, filled with the choicest plants, found their reflections in plates of glass cunningly inlaid here and there upon the surface of the table.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

On the continent, vases or epergnes filled with flowers are invariably placed down the centre of the dinner-table at regular distances.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

From buttons to epergnes, we find this apparatus every where.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various