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Secretary vs Chiffonier - What's the difference?

secretary | chiffonier |

As nouns the difference between secretary and chiffonier

is that secretary is (obsolete) someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant while chiffonier is a tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.

As a verb secretary

is to serve as a secretary of.

secretary

English

Noun

(wikipedia secretary) (secretaries)
  • (obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
  • (senseid)A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
  • (senseid)(often, capitalized) The head of a department of government.
  • (senseid)A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
    • Ban Ki-Moon is the current secretary general of the United Nations.
  • (senseid)(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
  • (senseid)A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius .

    • Derived terms

    * secretary bird * secretary desk

    Related terms

    * secret * secretion * secretive * secretory

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To serve as a secretary of.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "secretary")

    External links

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    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