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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

have also heard these called dressing tables, and another name which 
completely eludes me just now.  They were often part of  a bedroom suite 
(dresser/bureau, bedstead, and the 'make up' table).

Lynn

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From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:51 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of 
downsizing...)

> 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