étagère
Americannoun
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étagères
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Etymology
Origin of étagère
Borrowed into English from French around 1850–55
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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 ● Sep. 8, 2022
The upgrades included Oriental rugs, block-print throw pillows, a tall wood étagère, a marble-topped dining table and an easy chair.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
For more information about Burden’s stands, go to jonathanburden.com; custom sizes and finishes are available, and Burden thinks the design could be easily adapted into a side table, étagère, or bookshelf.
From Architectural Digest ● Apr. 14, 2015
The primary decorative element is a wooden étagère bearing rows of pickle jars, bagels threaded onto metal rods and mustard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2014
Looking about me, I saw on a kind of étagère scores of half-burned candles in candlesticks, as if there had been a ball.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
Another way to encourage your cat to scratch and also not be an ugly tower are metal étagères.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
And in the planning a year from now, there might be four étagères added that go in the center of the room — how do we address them?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
By the time I graduated, I’d filled three Billy Baldwin-style étagères.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
Odd étagères, hanging and standing, and a large solid walnut case, were all well filled with books, and other books were carefully arranged on a table in the centre of the room.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
Rugs on which there was peace; sofas on which there was ease; étagères on which there were reveries.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
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