What is commode?

Commode

A commode, commode with legs, or commode on legs is any of several pieces of furniture. The word commode comes from the French word for "convenient" or "suitable", which in turn comes from the Latin adjective commodus, with similar meanings.

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Gilles Joubert - Collection
... at Versailles, 1759, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA Commode Commode, delivered for the Chambre de Madame Adelaide, daughter of Louis XV, at the Château ...
The Wallace Collection - Gallery - Furniture
1667 Cartonnier et pendule, c.1715 Commode, c. 2 items Paire de bibliothèque basse Étienne Doirat - 1 item Commode, c. 1775 Alexandre-Jean Oppenord - 3 items Bureau plat, 1710 Commode, c ...
Commode
... A commode, commode with legs, or commode on legs is any of several pieces of furniture ... The word commode comes from the French word for "convenient" or "suitable", which in turn comes from the Latin adjective commodus, with similar meanings ... Originally, in French furniture, a commode introduced about 1700 meant a low cabinet, or chest of drawers at the height of the dado rail (à hauteur d'appui) ...
Antoine Gaudreau
... In one case, the identification of a royal commode permits the attribution to Gaudreau of several similar ones ... The commode in question, formerly in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild, was delivered by Gaudreau on 4 August 1738 intended for the King's bedroom at Château La Muette ... The gilt-bronze mounts, by which André Bouthemy attributed the commode to Charles Cressent, who may have been responsible for modelling them ...
Close Stool
... in the nineteenth century with the term night commode, which John Gloag suggested may have derived its significance from a design for a "balance night stool" in Thomas Sheraton ... Commode survived into the twentieth century to refer to the flush toilet, itself originally euphemistic ...

More definitions of "commode":

  • (noun): A tall elegant chest of drawers.
    Synonyms: chiffonier