commode
a low cabinet or similar piece of furniture, often highly ornamental, containing drawers or shelves.
a stand or cupboard containing a chamber pot or washbasin.
a portable toilet, especially one on a chairlike frame with wheels, as for an invalid.
an elaborate headdress consisting chiefly of a high framework decorated with lace, ribbons, etc., worn perched on top of the hair by women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Origin of commode
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How to use commode in a sentence
Beginning to walk, he tumbles over another man’s couch, changes course to collide with someone’s commode, then butts against a worktable that can’t be disturbed.
Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities | Sebastian Smee | September 29, 2021 | Washington PostIn that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter.
Houston had raised suddenly, was staring in the direction of an old commode in the corner.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperThe commode shows as well as anything the marked change which took place in the styles under the Empire.
The Old Furniture Book | N. Hudson MooreThe ‘commode’ is the wire frame over which the curls are arranged, piled up in high masses over the forehead.
English Costume | Dion Clayton Calthrop
She caught sight of herself in an old mirror, which stood upon a commode.
The Man and the Moment | Elinor GlynIn 1691 we find advertised in the Livre commode of Paris a portable coffee-making outfit to fit the pocket.
All About Coffee | William H. Ukers
British Dictionary definitions for commode
/ (kəˈməʊd) /
a piece of furniture, usually highly ornamented, containing drawers or shelves
a bedside table with a cabinet below for a chamber pot or washbasin
a movable piece of furniture, sometimes in the form of a chair, with a hinged flap concealing a chamber pot
a woman's high-tiered headdress of lace, worn in the late 17th century
Origin of commode
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