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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.





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"Chiffonier" Quotes from Famous Books



... three francs in a cafe in the Palais Royal. They need have no more wonder if they will but consider the classification which is a theoretic speciality of Parisian life, and adopt all round the fact from which the chiffonier ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... I went away from Hilton. Edith's tirades became unendurable. I didn't want even to eat her food. The spinet desk, the bureau, the chiffonier, the closet, I cleared of every trace of me. I stripped the bed of its linen and left the mattress rolled over the foot-board in eloquent abandonment. The waste-basket bulged with discarded odds and ends. One had only to look into that room ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... CHEFFONIER, properly CHIFFONIER, a piece of furniture differentiated from the sideboard by its smaller size and by the enclosure of the whole of the front by doors. Its name (which comes from the French for a rag-gatherer) suggests that it was originally intended as a receptacle for odds and ends which had no place elsewhere, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various
... Chess-board sxaka tabulo. Chest of drawers komodo. Chest (box) kesto. Chest brusto. Chestnut (edible) kasxtano. Chevalier kavaliro. Chew macxi. Chicane cxikani. Chicken kokido. Chicken-house kokejo. Chicory cikorio. Chide riprocxi. Chief cxefo. Chief cxefa. Chiffonier cxifonujo. Chignon harligajxo. Chilblain frostabsceso. Child infano. Childhood infaneco. Childish infana. Childishness infanajxo. Chill malvarmigi. Chill malvarmo. Chime sonorilado. Chimera hximero. Chimney kamentubo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... slipped from Marjorie's encircling arm and leaned against the chiffonier, covering her face with ...
— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester
... tiptoed into the room in clumsy fashion, for fear of waking the baby, in his quest of a pair of gloves in a chiffonier drawer. After finding them, he stopped for a moment in front of her, with that ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various


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