[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I passed that along to my beloved spouse who smiled and said, "So we are
not dealing with the first generation of people who do not want their
parents' furniture."



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My mother had one of those back in the day.  I wonder what became of it
> ....  Thank heaven it's not here!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 3/31/2015 5:51 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
>
>> Yes, my grandmother would have called it a chest of drawers.
>>
>> But in her bedroom there was a chiffonier, which Wikipedia
>> claims is a tall chest of drawers with a mirror. But Grammy's
>> was a table (with drawers on the sides, over the legs and a
>> tall mirror) on which she kept her hairbrush and mirror and
>> combs. Hair-dressing combs, that held up her hair. Her hat
>> pins were in the top drawer on the right. In the 1950s it might
>> have been called a make-up table.
>> -M
>>
>>
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