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

[Jay Weigel]

My grandfather called that arrangement a "secretary", Lynn/

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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