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Chippendale

[ chip-uhn-deyl ]

noun

  1. Thomas, 1718?–79, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer.


adjective

  1. of or in the style of Thomas Chippendale.

Chippendale

/ ˈtʃɪpənˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. ChippendaleThomas?17181779MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: cabinet-makerARTS AND CRAFTS: furniture designer Thomas. ?1718–79, English cabinet-maker and furniture designer


adjective

  1. (of furniture) designed by, made by, or in the style of Thomas Chippendale, characterized by the use of Chinese and Gothic motifs, cabriole legs, and massive carving

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Example Sentences

There were the high, wide ones of Chippendale or Sheraton, that would almost fill one side of a room.

The table and a few of the chairs looked like our spindle-legged Chippendale things.

She sat as easily upright in the delicate Chippendale chair as though she had been born to it.

She saw a pretty little hall, a bunch of roses in a vase on a Chippendale table, two or three closed doors.

There was hardly a volume in the elegant Chippendale bookcases not similarly inscribed.

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