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2. Chest of drawers - Wikipedia

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   The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers". At the ...

3. Hope chest - Wikipedia

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   The term "hope chest" or "cedar chest" is used in the United States; in the United Kingdom, the term is "bottom drawer"; while both terms, and "glory box" are used by women in Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Today, some furniture makers refer to chests made to hold family heirlooms or general storage items as hope chests.

4. Welsh dresser - Wikipedia

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   A Welsh dresser is a piece of wooden furniture consisting of drawers and cupboards in the lower part, with shelves and perhaps a sideboard on top. Traditionally, it is a utilitarian piece of furniture used to store and display crockery, silverware and pewter-ware, but is also used to display general ornaments. [1] [2] [3]

5. Dresser Industries - Wikipedia

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   By 1975, Dresser's total sales exceeded $2 billion, with profits of more than $123 million. [ 6 ] : 356 Those sales came 28% from petroleum operations, 21% from industrial specialties, 24% from energy processing and conversion, 15% from construction and mining, and 12% from refractories and minerals.

6. Chifforobe - Wikipedia

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   A chifforobe (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ f ə ˌ r oʊ b /), also chiffarobe or chifferobe, is a closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes (that is, a wardrobe or armoire) with a chest of drawers. [1] Typically the wardrobe section runs down one side of the piece, while the drawers occupy the other side. [2]

7. Tallboy (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. [2] A highboy consists of double chest of drawers (a chest-on-chest), with the lower section usually wider than the upper. [3]