étagère
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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 Leland, Charles Godfrey
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
Yonder, a wealth of silks and lacquer finds a resting-place in the carved black-walnut étagères of Japan.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
The cushions, and even the divan itself, are of the richest velvet stuffs: and the numerous étagères in the mistaba are filled with costly glass-ware, crystal cups, and elegant porcelain vases.
From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb
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