chiffonnière

American  

[shif-uh-neer, shee-faw-nyer] / ˌʃɪf əˈnɪər, ʃi fɔˈnjɛr /

noun

French Furniture.

• chiffonnières
  plural

1. a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chiffonnières
  plural

Etymology

Origin of chiffonnière

1800–10; < French, feminine of chiffonnier. See chiffonier

Example Sentences

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chiffonnière chiffonnières

On trying to the left, he found that his hand rested on a chiffonnière, his touch displacing a china cup and saucer standing upon the marble top.

From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn

Duchesse de Persigny was a chiffonnière with a hotte on her back and a gray dress very much looped up, showing far above her wooden shoes.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

There was a grand pianoforte too, and a glass chiffonnière, in which all her little birthday and holiday gifts were arranged.

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai

In the first room, a great glass chiffonnière stood opposite the windows, ornamented by pillars supported by gilded angels.

From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai

The ex-spy Clémence muttered soft speeches into the ear of a retired chiffonnière, who smiled awkwardly in reply.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton

Gilt consoles, and chiffonnières, with white marble tops, are placed wherever they could be disposed; and, on the chimney pieces, are fine pendules.

From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington