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

[ME Michaud]

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