I learned a new word today. The brass tips on tapered legs aren't called "brass tips on tapered legs" by people in the know. They're called sabots.
I saw the term used on a well-known antique site, and a little research confirmed that I had been woefully uninformed for the past sixty years. The word is more commonly used to refer to a shoe, specifically a clog or a wooden shoe most of us associate with windmills and tulips, but it is used in the furniture industry to denote the metal "shoe" on the tip of a chair, sofa or table leg.
I'll rest easier tonight knowing that's been cleared up...unless I wake up at 3 a.m. wondering how many other furniture terms I don't know.
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| 1stdibs.com |
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| circajerk.com |
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| marble-go.com |
