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

"La petite chiffonnière" was widely known in the small world of the Porte de Charenton.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

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

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

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

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

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