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TALLBOY (partly a translation and partly a corruption of the French hautbois)

TALLBOY (partly a See also:
TRANSLATION
translation and partly a corruption of the See also:
FRENCH
FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)
French hautbois) , a See also:

double See also:

CHEST (Gr. Kiarl, Lat. cista, O. Eng. cist, test, &c.)

chest of drawers. Whereas the chest of drawers in its See also:

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form (sometimes in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century called a " See also:

LOWBOY

lowboy ") contains three See also:

long and two See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short drawers, the tallboy has five, six, or seven long drawers, and two short ones. It is a very See also:

LATE

late 17th-century development of the smaller chest. The See also:

early examples are of See also:

WALNUT (Juglans)

walnut, but by far the largest proportion of the many that have survived are of See also:

MAHOGANY

mahogany, that being the See also:

wood most frequently employed in the 18th century for the construction of See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, especially the more massive pieces. Occasionally the walnut at the beginning of the See also:

VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue of the tallboy was inlaid, just as satin-wood varieties were inlaid, depending for See also:

RELIEF

relief upon carved See also:

CORNICE (Fr. corniche, Ital. cornice)

cornice-See also:

MOULDINGS

mouldings or gadrooning, and upon handsome See also:

brass handles and escutcheons. The tallboy was the See also:

WARDROBE

wardrobe of the 18th century, but it eventually gave See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place to the See also:

MODERN

modern type of wardrobe, which, with its sliding drawers, was speedily found to be not only as capacious as its predecessor but more convenient of See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access. The topmost drawers of the tallboy could only be reached by the use of See also:

bed steps, and the disappearance of high beds and the consequent disuse of steps exercised a certain See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence in displacing a characteristic piece of furniture which was popular for at least a century.

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