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Chiffonier   Listen
noun
Chiffonier  n.  
1.
One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
2.
A receptacle for rags or shreds.
3.
A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Chiffonier" Quotes from Famous Books



... room of good size, was unostentatiously furnished with good bourgeois mahogany. A buxom mahogany chiffonier, a large square dining-table, a black marble clock with two dials, one being a barometer, three large oil landscapes of exceedingly umbrageous trees and glassy lakes, inoffensively uninteresting, more Atlantic liners, and a large bookcase, apparently filled with serried lines of bound ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne
... slipped from Marjorie's encircling arm and leaned against the chiffonier, covering her face with ...
— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester
... great resource to my mother," said Raymond. "Anne, you are too tired to play?—No, Julius, the pack is not there; look in the drawer of the chiffonier." ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... furniture, plated silver, and imitations of china and of linen were to be found in the small three-cornered dining room, which resembled a penurious wedge of cake, Mary thought as she tried saying something polite. The imitation extended to the bedroom with its wall bed and built-in chiffonier and dresser of gaudy walnut. Trudy had promptly cluttered up the last-mentioned article with smart-looking cretonne and near-ivory toilet articles. There was even a pathetic little wardrobe trunk they had bought for $28.75 ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... sorry for her," said Miriam, "but considering the fact that I am now going to room alone, I shall write to Mother and ask her to send me the money to furnish this room as I please. I'd like to have a davenport bed, and I want a chiffonier and a dressing table to match. There's room here for a piano, too. I'll have it over in this corner ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower


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