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Chiffonier
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''. The French name, which comes from the French language, French for a rag-picker, suggests that it was originally intended as a receptacle for odds and ends which had no place elsewhere.Chiffonier
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British chiffonier

In British usage, a chiffonier is similar to a sideboard, but differentiated by its smaller size and by the enclosure of the whole of the front by doors. It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire style, Empire period in England. The earliest ...
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