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The term chiffonier, also chiffonnier, may refer to one of at least two types of furniture. Its name comes directly from a French piece of furniture, the chiffonier . [ 1 ] The French name, which comes from the French for a rag-picker , suggests that it was originally intended as a receptacle for odds and ends which had no place elsewhere.
In the 1952 Flannery O'Connor novel Wise Blood, Hazel Motes leaves a note on his mother's abandoned "chifforobe" warning thieves will be found and killed. [7]In the song "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard", Tom Waits writes, "I come in on a night train, With an arm full of box cars, On the wings of a magpie, Cross a hooligan night, And I busted up a chifforobe, way out by the cocomo, Cooked up a ...
French commode, by Gilles Joubert, circa 1735, made of oak and walnut, veneered with tulipwood, ebony, holly, other woods, gilt bronze and imitation marble, in the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States) A British commode, circa 1772, marquetry of various woods, bronze and gilt-bronze mounts, overall: 95.9 × 145.1 × 51.9 cm, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
Gammelfarmors chiffonjé ("Great Grandmother's Chiffonier") was the 1979 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. [1] Plot
I've hounded around for a "modern" definition of "chiffonier", and it seems to be along the lines of "smaller piece of furniture with drawers and often some sort of desk". Merriam-Webster, on the other hand, thinks it's "a high narrow chest of drawers", i. e. very much unlike a sideboard, see here .
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
Google's other music streaming service Play Music was merged with YouTube Music in May 2020, as the latter is a more recognized brand. [166] Support for the dedicated YouTube application on the Sony PlayStation Vita game console was deprecated in January 2015, for the Nintendo Wii and Wii Mini in June 2017, and for the Nintendo 3DS in August 2019.
Nothing is securely known about his training. He was in Paris by about 1740; from 1749 he lived in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.. During 1751 – 1754 he worked as compagnon at the workshop of Charles-Joseph Boulle, son of the great ébeniste of Louis XIV, André Charles Boulle, and then independently in premises in the Galleries of the Louvre sublet to him by Boulle.