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My bunk bed became an elegant four-poster, my IKEA dresser an oaken chifforobe.
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Elisabeth Thomas, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
And so his initial impulse maybe in the work was to also elevate me and put me in these settings with partridges and scepters, and thrones and chifforobes and mounting me on horses.
—Tierney McAfee, PEOPLE.com, 12 Feb. 2018
Elisabeth Thomas, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
And so his initial impulse maybe in the work was to also elevate me and put me in these settings with partridges and scepters, and thrones and chifforobes and mounting me on horses.
—Tierney McAfee, PEOPLE.com, 12 Feb. 2018
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Word History
Etymology
chiffonier + wardrobe
First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
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“Chifforobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chifforobe. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.
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