Chiffonier
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
""There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could offend the most fastidious eye, as Mrs. Palmer observed; a duchess might delight in it; every thing is so clean without, and so good within: such beautiful carpets and rugs to match! such handsome chiffoniers, and elegant books!..."
- 2 a tall elegant chest of drawers wordnet
- 3 One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
- 4 A receptacle for rags or shreds.
Example
More examples""There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could offend the most fastidious eye, as Mrs. Palmer observed; a duchess might delight in it; every thing is so clean without, and so good within: such beautiful carpets and rugs to match! such handsome chiffoniers, and elegant books!..."
Etymology
Borrowed from French chiffonnier.
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