Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Properly, a small cabinet with drawers; in general, any ornamental piece of furniture used for containing ornaments and curiosities. It differs from an étagère in being closed, having drawers or doors instead of open shelves.
- noun A case of drawers resembling a bureau, but higher in proportion to its width and less often provided with a mirror.
- noun A rag-picker: in this sense used by English writers merely as a French word, with a feminine chiffonnière.
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- noun Alternative form of
chiffonier .
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Examples
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At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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He found himself in an apartment which was simply and neatly, though not poorly furnished; everything, from the miniature chiffonnier to the shining little daguerreotype which formed the central ornament of the mantelpiece, being in scrupulous order.
Wessex Tales 2006
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You will find rubbers in the front hall by that thing which has the umbrellas in it, chiffonnier, I think they call it, or pergola, or something like that.
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-- An old chiffonnier (or rag picker) died in Paris in a state apparently of the most abject poverty.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection Various
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-- Owing to what circumstances this blue note-book, doomed to the flames, was discovered by me in an old Louis XVI chiffonnier I had just bought does not greatly matter to you, dear reader, and would be out of my power to explain even if it did.
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It is said that as this gay chiffonnier went one morning by the fish-markets uttering this jocose cry, a squad of those formidable
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The chiffonnier smiled a dark smile, and turned away.
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The half loaf of bread and the pat of butter which always tasted of the chiffonnier-cupboard, but had to be kept there because when a piece went out to the larder, none ever returned, filled him with loathing this morning.
The Girls of St. Olave's Mabel Mackintosh
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The small horsehair sofa where he sometimes tried to find a resting-place and failed; the tiny chiffonnier, unenlightened by
The Girls of St. Olave's Mabel Mackintosh
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Sea-shells are quiet things when they are vacant, and Mrs. Beale let us have the four big ones off her chiffonnier.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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