单词 | chiffonier |
释义 | chiffoniern. 1. A piece of furniture, consisting of a small cupboard with the top made so as to form a sideboard. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > sideboard > [noun] > chiffonier chiffonier1806 1806 C. K. Sharpe Lett. (1888) I. 251 Driven out into the wide world with a small helpless family of chiffoniers, writing-tables and footstools. 1808 M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 3 Furnished with Sofa, Footstools, Sheffoniers. 1831 Cat's Tail 28 Littered table and chiffonnière. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 233 Rosewood chiffonieres. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. ii. 16 The rout-cakes are in the chiffonier. 1851 Times 2 Apr. 12/6 Cheffoniers, pier tables, rocking chairs. 2. A rag-picker; a collector of scraps. (Consciously French, and usually so spelt.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > rag-collecting or dust-heap picking > one who kennel-raker1570 finder1607 rag-raker1631 rag-picker1680 bunter1706 rake-kennel1707 rag collector1820 rag gatherer1851 chiffonier1856 gutter-snipe1869 picker1884 tatter1890 totter1891 dumpster diver1985 1856 Sat. Rev. 2 568/2 Play the part of political chiffonniers. 1861 Sat. Rev. 14 Dec. 620 All kinds of odds and ends, scraps and rubbish, fished up as it were by the literary chiffonnier. 1883 Harper's Mag. May 829/1 Swarms of Chiffoniers gather around it to pick out..scraps of value. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1806 |
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