chifforobe

[ shif-uh-rohb, shif-rohb ]

noun

1. a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chifforobe¹

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; chiffo(nier) + (ward)robe

Example Sentences

They were up there on the shelf in Mama’s chifforobe with things happening to them, whereas Granny wasn’t anywhere.

From Literature

Cheap stuffed furniture together with an old handmade cherrywood chifforobe.

From Literature

The new scheme would have to incorporate our 1940s elm-wood chifforobe, a 1960s Edward Wormley walnut highboy and a blond Terence Conran bookcase.

From Wall Street Journal

It’s the fast, physical, seven-on-seven court sport in which players try to hurl a ball the size of a honeydew into a net the size of a chifforobe.

From Slate

I head for the wine bottle on the gozillion-dollar chifforobe but Miss Celia gets to it before me, dumps the rest into her glass.

From Literature