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2. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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   Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [5] and low tables were common in Japan, this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

3. 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 ...

4. Lowboy - Wikipedia

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   A different type of dressing table. Lowboys and tallboys were favorite pieces of the 18th century, both in England and in the United States; the lowboy was most frequently used as a dressing-table, but sometimes as a side-table. It is usually made of oak, walnut or mahogany, with the drawer-fronts mounted with brass pulls and escutcheons.

5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   a type of chest of drawers: burn (n.) (Scotland and Northern England) narrow river, stream – more s.v. creek: wound caused by heat, or chemical agents, etc. (n.) clearing (as in a forest) made by burning vegetation bus (v.) to travel by bus to clear (as tables) in a restaurant; to work as a busboy: butcher

6. Petit Trianon - Wikipedia

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   The ceiling was hung in white silk with gold lamé, the upholsterer Darrac supplied the sky-blue satin curtains with gold braiding and the Empress's cabinetmaker, Pierre-Benoît Marcion, [note 40] supplied the furniture around a single gilded wooden bed, [146] including a chest of drawers and a secretary, as well as a gilded wood and white ...

7. Boeing 314 Clipper - Wikipedia

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   The 4 feet (1.2 m) square galley had a linoleum covered floor, a 12-inch (300 mm) by 10-inch (250 mm) aluminum sink, a drip coffee maker, an aluminum icebox, a combination stove and steamer, a cabinet containing a two-tiered dish rack capable of accommodating 200 fine China plates, two glass and cup racks, a saucer rack, eight drawers and a ...