étagère

Also e·ta·gere

[ey-tah-zhair, ey-tuh-, ey-ta-zher]

noun

plural

étagères 

1. a stand with a series of open shelves for small objects, bric-a-brac, etc.

étagère

/ etaʒɛr /

noun

1. a stand with open shelves for displaying ornaments, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of étagère¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1850–55

Word History and Origins

Origin of étagère¹

C19: from French, from étage shelf; see _stage

Example Sentences

A bust of Philidor, the eighteenth-century French chess player and composer who was considered the best player of his day, was perched atop an étagère of chess sets, almost as if he were at the game.

From Literature

There are plenty of ways to ship furniture, so even if all you brought with you for purchases was a tote bag, it doesn’t mean you can’t jump on that dreamy brass étagère you found.

From Washington Post

Among the first pieces he made, after leaving Diane von Furstenberg in 2018 and taking a two-month-long inspiration trip to Japan and India, was a six-foot-tall étagère composed of long crystal shelves suspended between two rectangular wooden columns made from alternating sections of sycamore, ash and white wenge.

From New York Times

Tricia Beanum reclines on a vintage Mies van der Rohe MR lounge chair inside Pop Up Home and surveys her recent estate sale finds: vintage Persian rugs, midcentury pottery, a brass and glass Milo Baughman étagère.

From Los Angeles Times

Others are knickknacks displayed in a tall étagère, such as three white cubes stacked on a lumpy white plinth and titled “Snowman.”

From Los Angeles Times