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

[Marion Thompson]

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
>