OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40769

chiffonier

/ˌʃɪf.əˈnɪə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chifonier • shifonier • sifonier
A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
"There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could offend the most fastidious eye, as Mrs. Palmer observed; a duchess might deligh…
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a roo…
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