Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A narrow high chest of drawers or bureau, often with a mirror attached.
Wiktionary
- n. A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
- n. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
- n. A receptacle for rags or shreds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
- n. A receptacle for rags or shreds.
- n. A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tall elegant chest of drawers
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French chiffonnier. (Wiktionary)
- French, from chiffon, rag; see chiffon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Let the 'chiffonier' do the work," said Walter, with a laugh.”
“Mr.. Metford had sold the car and discharged the "chiffonier," and Mr. Metford had returned to his ancient and honourable calling of coal freighter.”
“IN the dining room I took my place between the chiffonier and the Louis XIV chair.”
“Mr. Micawber had a few books on a little chiffonier, which he called the library; and those went first.”
“Incident: an ancient, wizened waiter was quietly polishing silver cutlery and putting it away the open drawer of a massive Victorian chiffonier when the drawer fell out and crashed onto the parquetry floor with an explosion that would have deafened an F1 driver.”
““Of course,” said Dangle, taking his straw hat from the shade over the stuffed bird on the chiffonier and turning towards the door.”
“But when they came downstairs the Park people were not in the room — the woollen garment was still on the table (how they plunged it into the chiffonier!) — and the only visitor was”
“Duardo took the empty flute from her fingers and placed it with his own on a nearby chiffonier.”
“From the chiffonier had gone the knick-knacks of silver and plate.”
“He lay for hours under the lodging-house chiffonier.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chiffonier’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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Invisible Man
Words culled from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
sweetback, inspirit, plasticine, atoss, hyperreceptivity, laugher-at-wounds, necrophily, monopolate, aliveness, thinker-tinker, weltschmerz, klieg and 113 more...
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Mat8iou's interesting words
Words I've come across & want to remember.
bloviation, elginism, panegyric, infandous, boke, pangram, quine, pareto principle, panopticon, snib, escutcheon, bokeh and 129 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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Russo Vocab Test
ostracize, innumerable, chiffonier, qualm, compulsory, sadism, masochism, falsetto, liberate, rile, pacifist, unscrupulous and 56 more...
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While reading
littoral, manichean, omerta, opprobrium, discomfit, betise, tittle, pellucid, chiffonier, hagiographic, essoin, raiment and 35 more...
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Furniture I Never Had
This list was originally titled 'Furniture I Never Had'. I changed it to 'Things I Never Had' because I'm not much interested in furniture anyway :-( There's a whole wider world of not-having out t...
davenport, ottoman, tallboy, rolltop desk, chesterfield, waterbed, chaise longue, bowfat, love seat, electric chair, throne, cathedra and 26 more...
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