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Commode vs Chiffonier - What's the difference?

commode | chiffonier |

As nouns the difference between commode and chiffonier

is that commode is a low chest of drawers on short legs while chiffonier is a tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.

commode

English

Noun

(wikipedia commode) (en noun)
  • A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  • A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  • A chair containing a chamber pot.
  • (euphemistic) A toilet.
  • (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
  • * Granville
    • Or under high commodes , with looks erect.

    Related terms

    * discommode, incommode * bidet ----

    chiffonier

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chiffonnier

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier ; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • *1936 , (Djuna Barnes), (Nightwood) , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
  • *:From the half-open drawers of this chiffonnier hung laces, ribands, stockings, ladies' underclothing and an abdominal brace, which gave the impression that the feminine finery had suffered venery.
  • One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
  • A receptacle for rags or shreds.

    • Synonyms

    * cheffonier