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Chiffonier   Listen
noun
Chiffonier  n.  
1.
One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
2.
A receptacle for rags or shreds.
3.
A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.





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"Chiffonier" Quotes from Famous Books



... enjoy seeing the bill called forth by the finery displayed and one is possessed by a desire to see the princess for whose benefit—Look! There's some one! Disappointment! This is only a maid hunting for something—she lifts a heap from a chair—Not there; another heap, the dressing-table, the chiffonier drawers. She brings to light several beautiful chemises and an amazing pajama but this does ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... Francis led the way to his little study upstairs. He showed me his books and read to me from his one solitary "First Edition." Then he unlocked a little drawer in an old chiffonier and brought out a package all wrapped in chamois. This parcel held two miniature portraits, one of Fenelon and one ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... pain. One alternative after another flickered into her consciousness, only to die out again into blackness. Home! But by the merest flash of the incongruous, not to say absurd, vision of Albert Penny's wilted collar on the chiffonier, or his shirt sleeves that were held back with pink rubber garters, bending over the recalcitrant bed caster, ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... solid white profile as he stood with hands clasped, near her music, on the chiffonier. She noticed again that strange flatness of the lower ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... had moulded her cool hands to David's smooth, soft cheeks, and was looking wistfully into the eyes of her little boy. But abruptly he struggled free from her; he slipped to the floor, mounted on a chair in front of the chiffonier and peeped excitedly into the mirror. A long time he looked at the tousle-headed reflection that looked earnestly back at him. He frowned, and the boy in the glass frowned, too. He was a great disappointment, that boy; he wasn't the ...
— A Melody in Silver • Keene Abbott


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