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Meanings of chiffonnier in английском

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A ragpicker or chiffonnier is someone who makes a living by rummaging through refuse in the streets to collect material for salvage.

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Examples for "rag-picker"
Examples for "rag-picker"
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The prisoners were as heterogeneous as the contents of a rag-picker's auction.
The Subterranean Brotherhood
2
It might have been a rag-picker's dump-heap on a colossal scale.
France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization
3
This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a smile!
Les Misérables
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In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.
Les Misérables
5
His garments might have been discarded by a rag-picker.
The Red One
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The next day Anna fetched a rag-and-bone man who took the lot.
Depths
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You'd think she got all her clothes from the rag-and-bone man.
Another life altogether: a novel
3
The industry is going through a revolution right now, from the rag-and-bone man through to the machine.
The Guardian
4
The two men made an efficient partnership, if an ironic one: an engineer whose nature was to build, a rag-and-bone man whose passion was destruction.
Carte Blanche
5
Perhaps there was something else behind the murder of the Rag-and-bone Man, something personal.
Carte Blanche
Usage of chiffonnier in английском
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And as they passed her room he saw still another on the chiffonnier.
The Fifth String
2
Fauvel's room, he opened the drawer of the chiffonnier, where she kept her jewels.
File No. 113
3
Lady's chair, gent's chair, sofa, and four uprights, with chiffonnier, and overmantel, and all.
Flaming June
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She thought of the bag-that bag which had rumbled about so queerly in the chiffonnier.
The Lodger
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But the chiffonnier refused to give up its secret.
The Lodger
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The chiffonnier smiled a dark smile, and turned away.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 1
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A large-sized, doll's chiffonnier with a mirror on it.
Mary's Rainbow
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I wiped it up as well as I could, seeing that the doors of the chiffonnier are locked.
The Lodger
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Neither chiffonnier, nor pictures, nor antimacassars had changed at all; the bustling landlady was still loud and vigorous.
The History of David Grieve
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Orren raised himself from the chair and went over to the chiffonnier behind Manguino and poured himself some wine.
Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
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There was only one place where anything could be kept concealed-thatplace was the substantial if small mahogany chiffonnier.
The Lodger
12
At three o'clock Elma discovered her removing the covers from the drawing-room cushions, and folding them neatly away in the chiffonnier.
Flaming June
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And for half an hour she twisted and looped and coiled, between the chiffonnier and a hand-glass, fairly flushing with pleasure at the result.
A Reversion To Type
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And now, this afternoon, she looked at the rosewood chiffonnier with longing eyes-sheeven gave that pretty little piece of furniture a slight shake.
The Lodger
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At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room.
The Invisible Man
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Taking advantage of your being out I went up to dust the drawing-room, and while I was trying to get behind the chiffonnier it tilted.
The Lodger
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Chiffonnier through the time