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chiffonier|ʃɪfəˈnɪə(r)|
Also -onnier, -onniere, -oniere, cheffonier.
[a. F. chiffonnier, -ière rag-gatherer, transf. ‘a piece of furniture with drawers in which women put away their needlework, cuttings of cloth, etc.’ (Littré).]
1. A piece of furniture, consisting of a small cupboard with the top made so as to form a sideboard.
1806C. K. Sharpe Lett. (1888) I. 251 Driven out into the wide world with a small helpless family of chiffoniers, writing-tables and footstools. 1831Cat's Tail 28 Littered table and chiffonnière. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 108/1 Rosewood chiffoniers. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury (1856) II. ii. 176 The rout cakes are in the chiffonière. 1851Times 2 Apr. 12/6 Cheffoniers, pier tables, rocking chairs.
‖2. A rag-picker; a collector of scraps. (Consciously Fr., and usually so spelt.)
1856Sat. Rev. II. 568/2 Play the part of political chiffonniers. 1861Ibid. 14 Dec. 620 All kinds of odds and ends, scraps and rubbish, fished up as it were by the literary chiffonnier. 1883Harper's Mag. 829/1 Swarms of Chiffoniers gather around it to pick out..scraps of value. |