closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire^, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment

Punica mala aurantia commode permittuntur modo non sint austera et acida. 2924.

Metallica omnia in universum quovismodo parata, nec tuto nec commode intra corpus sumi.

This Observation is so very notorious, that when in ordinary Discourse we say a Man has a fine Head, a long Head, or a good Head, we express ourselves metaphorically, and speak in relation to his Understanding; whereas when we say of a Woman, she has a fine, a long or a good Head, we speak only in relation to her Commode.

ACCOMMODER, rendre commode; apprêter à manger.

COMMODÉMENT, d'une maniere commode.

Dans le commencemens je souffrois si fort, que, quand j'étois descendu, je ne pouvois remonter sans aide, tant les jarrets me faisoient mal; mais lorsque j'y fus accoutumé, cette manière me parut plus commode que la nôtre.

Her Commode was not half a Foot high, and her Petticoat within some Yards of a modish Circumference.

She has taken a vast palace and a vast garden, which is vastly commode, especially to the cicisbeo-part of mankind, who have free indulgence to wander in pairs about the arbours.

Vignette of a Louis Quatorze Commode, as Ornament to Initial Letter.

Style A Boule Commode French Sedan Chair Part of a Salon (Louis XV.)

Commode (Jones Collection)

A Parqueterie Commode "Bureau Du Roi" A Boudoir (Louis XVI.

As an example of the difference in both outline and detail which took place in design, let the reader notice the form of the Louis Quatorze commode vignetted for the initial letter of this chapter, and then turn to the lighter and more fanciful cabinets of somewhat similar shape which will be found illustrated in the "Louis Quinze" section which follows this.

[Illustration: Boule Commode, Probably made during the period of the Regency (Museé du Louvre.)]

[Illustration: Commode.

His method was generally to make the centre panel of a commode front, or the frieze of a table, a tour de force, the marqueterie picture being wonderfully delicate.

His famous commode, made for the Château of Fontainebleau, which cost a million francs (£4,000)an enormous sum in those daysis one of his chefs d'oeuvre, and this is an excellent example of his style.

A similar commode was sold in the Hamilton Palace sale for £4,305.

An upright secretaire, en suite with the commode, was also sold at the same time for £4,620, and the writing table for £6,000.

There is no date on the table, but the secretaire is stamped 1790, and the commode 1791.

Some of Chippendale's designs bear such titles as "French chairs" or a "Bombé-fronted Commode."

[Illustration: "French" Commode and Lamp Stands.

A portable telephone stood on a commode beside Mr. Skinner's bed, so the latter answered immediately.

There is a wardrobe, a wash stand, with pitcher and basin, and a commode, fans, chairs, and round white marble table, all the pieces placed in solitude, so as to convey the notion of lonesomeness.