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  • noun a tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached

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Examples

  • Chairs, tables, cheffonier, and sofa, all gleamed with the glutinous brightness of cheap upholstery.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • Gift deserves a place on the _cheffonier_ shelf of every nursery in the kingdom.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 Various

  • He now unlocked a drawer in the cheffonier and took out a very small square box, morocco leather, velvet-lined.

    Every Man for Himself Hopkins Moorhouse

  • They will about occupy three _cheffonier_ shelves; -- or what delightful volumes for fire-side shelves, or a "little book-room," or a breakfast parlour opening on

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

  • In the sitting room we had a sofa, a round table, a cheffonier, and even a bookcase containing Guicciardini's History of Italy, and a Teatro Francese in thirty volumes.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • And then she turned to the cheffonier to inspect her lover's stock of literature.

    The Golden Calf 1875

  • You'll find some books of Mr. Wendover's on the cheffonier.

    The Golden Calf 1875

  • Shock had not swum out and saved me from drowning, for there he was under one of the pear-trees, with a switch and a piece of clay, throwing pellets at our house, one of which came right in at the open window close by my cheek, and struck against Mrs Beeton's cheffonier door.

    Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden George Manville Fenn 1870

  • As for the magnificently furnished room, with its heavy curtains and drawn-down blinds, it seemed to have grown darker, so that the faint gleams of light that had hung in a dull way on the faces of the great mirrors and the gilded carving of console and cheffonier, had died out.

    The Dark House A Knot Unravelled George Manville Fenn 1870

  • And only think of a man pointing to half-a-dozen vases on his mantelpiece, and as many more on his cheffonier, and saying, 'There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest!'

    The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

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