Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tall piece of furniture typically having drawers on one side and space for hanging clothes on the other.
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- noun A piece of
furniture consisting of awardrobe combined with achest of drawers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Obama demonstrates how he would bust up a chifforobe with just his left hand.
Continuing the picnic table theme... Ann Althouse 2009
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Then a loud thunk echoed from the chifforobe, and both of them jerked toward the sound.
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Grabbing one side of the tarp, he pulled it to the floor and viewed an antique oak chifforobe.
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Dressers were overturned, bed turned over, chifforobe lying face down on the floor among broken shards of bric-a-brac.
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Dugas quickly searched the chifforobe, finding men's clothes only.
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It measured about twelve feet square, a small cot in one corner, a small chifforobe in another, one wooden chair next to a table with a unlit lamp atop.
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It measured about twelve feet square, a small cot in one corner, a small chifforobe in another, one wooden chair next to a table with a unlit lamp atop.
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Dugas quickly searched the chifforobe, finding men's clothes only.
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In a room decorated as it was in the twenties with arched doorways and windows, black ceiling fans, cedar chifforobe, frosted glass lampshades, and a large console Zenith radio, no TV, Beau changed into a pair of faded jeans.
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In a room decorated as it was in the twenties with arched doorways and windows, black ceiling fans, cedar chifforobe, frosted glass lampshades, and a large console Zenith radio, no TV, Beau changed into a pair of faded jeans.
chained_bear commented on the word chifforobe
See comment on chiffarobe, which I think is a misspelling. (I didn't check every single dictionary...)
October 22, 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word chifforobe
The first time I heard this word I was watching "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Mayella Ewell in the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962): "I was sittin' on the porch, and he come along. Uh, there's this old chifforobe in the yard, and I-I said, 'You come in here, boy, and bust up this chifforobe, and I'll give you a nickel.'"
August 30, 2018