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chif·fo·nier
shI f nir
noun
a tall, narrow chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached at the top.
"女性针线、布料等的小抽屉柜",1806年,源自法语 chiffonnier,是一个引申用法,字面意思是“废布收集者”,来自 chiffon,是 chiffe “废布、布料碎片、薄薄的东西”(见 chiffon)的小号。
French chiffonnier, from chiffon
The first known use of chiffonier was in 1765
chignonnoun
a knot of hair worn at the back of the head
chiggernoun
a six-legged mite larva that feeds on skin cells and causes itchy red welts
chiffoniernoun
a high narrow chest of drawers
1 When I went down to football practice to-day I left my gold watch and a purse with twelve dollars in it in the top drawer of my chiffonier.
2 Tom took a walk up and down the room, halting in front of a picture of Grace which was in a silver frame on a chiffonier.
3 Hidden away in the back of a drawer in a small chiffonier, he had come across several articles that aroused interest if they did not whet the blade of suspicion.
4 He got it off Stradlater's chiffonier, so he chucked it on the bed.
5 There is no way of two people really knowing each other until after they are married and have to share the same dollar, the same table, the same newspaper and the same chiffonier.
6 He made a movement to go; but again she was in time to prevent him; for quick as a flash she had darted to the chiffonier, opened the top drawer and drawn forth a weapon.
7 "Put it on the chiffonier," said Jem, placing the clock where she had made room for it.
8 She tucked the letter away in the top drawer of her chiffonier with the optimistic opinion that it would not be very long before she could frankly tell her chums of its contents.
9 “I started thinking about those fire-opal pendants, the ladies in attendance, the assignations through the false chiffonier,” she said.
10 And she could stand out for the sofa, and the key to the chiffonier, and the drops to the chimney-lights, before she went into the lodging at all.
11 Boys, will you help Sherry carry out those two tables and that high desk and the chiffonier—all the oak furniture.
12 Marjorie cast a longing glance at the tall package on the chiffonier, as the two girls left the room.
13 Number 16 was not palatial as to size, but it was big enough to hold comfortably the two single beds, the study-table, the two narrow chiffoniers, and the four chairs that made up its furnishing.
14 Closets opening into the room, bureaus, and chiffoniers should be emptied of the belongings of other members of the family, to prevent people from tiptoeing into the sick room at all hours to remove garments.
15 Didn't she purposely mislead us by that note she left on my chiffonier?
16 She began to pull out the drawers of his chiffonier.
17 "Mother's in general very thoughtful," he answered, going over to her and lifting the tray to the chiffonier.
18 The two wash-stands, chiffoniers and dressing tables had Japanese covers of white stamped in blue figures.
19 At the extreme forward end of the stateroom there was a handsome mahogany chiffonier built in between the two forward berths.
20 Every time she tried to think of a plausible tale I told her it would hurt to cross the chiffonier head first.