different between commode vs chiffonier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenience”). Doublet of comodo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m??d/

Noun

commode (plural commodes)

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
4. (euphemistic) A toilet.
5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
   • 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants

     Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
     Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

Related terms

• discommode, incommode
• bidet

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commodus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m?d/

Adjective

commode (plural commodes)

1. convenient (of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient)

Derived terms

• accommoder
• incommode
  • incommoder

Descendants

• ? German: kommod

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. chest of drawers, commode, dresser
2. (Louisiana) toilet

Descendants

• ? Danish: kommode
• ? German: Kommode
• ? Italian: comodino
• ? Norwegian: kommode
• ? Swedish: kommod
• ? Persian: ???? (komod)

Further reading

• “commode” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kom.mo.de/

Adjective

commode

1. comfortable

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

commod? (comparative commodius, superlative commodissim?)

1. conveniently
2. aptly, suitably

Etymology 2

Adjective

commode

1. vocative masculine singular of commodus

References

• commode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode.

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. (Jersey) tallboy

English

Alternative forms

• chiffonnier

Etymology

Borrowed from French chiffonnier.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???f.??n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???f.??n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chiffonier (plural chiffoniers)

1. A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:

     From the half-open drawers of this chiffonnier hung laces, ribands, stockings, ladies' underclothing and an abdominal brace, which gave the impression that the feminine finery had suffered venery.

2. One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
3. A receptacle for rags or shreds.

Synonyms

• cheffonier

Translations