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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.
Gammelfarmors chiffonjé ("Great Grandmother's Chiffonier") was the 1979 edition of Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar. [1] Plot
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)
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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 .
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