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

[Roger Stokes]

On 31/03/2015 22:51, 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.

In UK speak that would be a dressing table.  The nirror night well have 
been a triple mirror with side pices that swing out to give some view of 
the sides to assist a lady in checking her appearance.

Roger