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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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At 27.6 inches in width, this model is wider than our previous pick—The Container Store’s Iron Folding Bath Etagere—and fits around an average-size toilet with a few inches of clearance on either side.

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