chiffonier

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I staid longer than I meant, and found her fallen to the floor Mrs. Boyd raised to a partly sitting posture and looked up with feverish eagerness I went to put something in the chiffonier--you will find it, Lilian, in a box and the key is--oh, what did I do with it Never mind, dear," in a soft tone But you must mind, and then I turned--it was my leg.

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  • She goes to the chiffonier, looks in the drawers, hesitatesthen to the desk whence she takes the cigarette-case and extracts one. —  This Side of Paradise
  • I staid longer than I meant, and found her fallen to the floor Mrs. Boyd raised to a partly sitting posture and looked up with feverish eagerness I went to put something in the chiffonier--you will find it, Lilian, in a box and the key is--oh, what did I do with it Never mind, dear," in a soft tone But you must mind, and then I turned--it was my leg. —  The Girls at Mount Morris
  • Then they found a number of used neckties in a chiffonier, and these were tied on the goat's legs and horns They sure do look like some goats now!" —  The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box
  • Mrs. Metford had sold the car and discharged the "chiffonier," and Mr. Metford had returned to his ancient and honourable calling of coal freighter Mrs. Hardy consulted Conward. —  The Cow Puncher
  • She had remembered a little golden locket in a drawer of the chiffonier, a locket that held the handsome face of a young man. —  A Melody in Silver
 

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  1. French, from chiffon, rag; see chiffon.
 

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