- french chippendale
- noun
Usage: usually capitalized F&C: a Chippendale furniture with elaborate detail like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze furniture
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
french chippendale
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French Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chippendale — Chip pen*dale, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chippendale — /chip euhn dayl /, n. 1. Thomas, 1718? 79, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer. adj. 2. of or in the style of Thomas Chippendale. * * * ▪ furniture various styles of furniture fashionable in the third quarter of the 18th century and… … Universalium
Chinese Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gothic Chippendale — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chippendale — [ tʃɪp(ə)ndeɪl] adjective (of furniture) designed by or in the style of the English furniture maker Thomas Chippendale (1718–79), neoclassical with elements of French rococo and chinoiserie … English new terms dictionary
Chippendale — Chip•pen•dale [[t]ˈtʃɪp ənˌdeɪl[/t]] n. 1) big Thomas, 1718?–79, English cabinetmaker and furniture designer 2) fur of or in the style of furniture of Thomas Chippendale, characterized by curved lines, carving, and elements from Gothic, Chinese,… … From formal English to slang
Thomas Chippendale — A provincial Chippendale style chair with elaborate Gothick tracery splat back Thomas Chippendale (probably born at Farnley near Otley, baptised at Otley 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1718 November 1779) [1] was a London cabinet maker and furniture… … Wikipedia
List of French artistic movements — The following is a chronological list of artistic movements or periods in France indicating artists who are sometimes associated or grouped with those movements. See also European art history, Art history and History of Painting and Art… … Wikipedia
Chippendalism — Chippendale Chip pen*dale, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
