chiffonnier

• “He found himself in an apartment which was simply and neatly, though not poorly furnished; everything, from the miniature chiffonnier to the shining little daguerreotype which formed the central ornament of the mantelpiece, being in scrupulous order.”

  Wessex Tales

• “At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room.”

  The Invisible Man

• “You will find rubbers in the front hall by that thing which has the umbrellas in it, chiffonnier, I think they call it, or pergola, or something like that.”

  Mark Twain: A Biography

• “The chiffonnier smiled a dark smile, and turned away.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “-- Owing to what circumstances this blue note-book, doomed to the flames, was discovered by me in an old Louis XVI chiffonnier I had just bought does not greatly matter to you, dear reader, and would be out of my power to explain even if it did.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “The half loaf of bread and the pat of butter which always tasted of the chiffonnier-cupboard, but had to be kept there because when a piece went out to the larder, none ever returned, filled him with loathing this morning.”

  The Girls of St. Olave's

• “The small horsehair sofa where he sometimes tried to find a resting-place and failed; the tiny chiffonnier, unenlightened by”

  The Girls of St. Olave's

• “It is said that as this gay chiffonnier went one morning by the fish-markets uttering this jocose cry, a squad of those formidable”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873

• “-- An old chiffonnier (or rag picker) died in Paris in a state apparently of the most abject poverty.”

  The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection

• “Sea-shells are quiet things when they are vacant, and Mrs. Beale let us have the four big ones off her chiffonnier.”

  New Treasure Seekers

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