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Furniture Glossary
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Casegoods - non-upholstery furniture pieces such as dressers, chests, and tables that are used for storage or function


Cassone - Italian chest, often highly decorated with carving and inlay


Centerpiece - ornament used to occupy the center of a dining table


Chaise-lounge - an upholstered chair with an elongated seat for reclining


Chamfer - a corner or edge that is cut at an angle or beveled


Channel back - a sofa or chair with vertical sections of cushioning in the back design


Chesterfield - deep-buttoned, sofa with the arms and back at the same height


Chest-on-chest - tall chest-of-drawers in two sections, one mounted on another slightly larger chest; also known as a tallboy


Chest-on-stand - tall chest-of-drawers on a stand, also known as a highboy


Chiffonnier - side cabinet with or without a drawer and with one or more shelves above


Chifforobe - a combination of wardrobe and chest-of-drawers


Claw-and-ball foot - a foot modeled as a ball gripped by an animal`s claw or bird`s talon


Club sofa - an upholstered piece of furniture whose arms are lower than its level back


Cockbeading - bead molding applied to the edges of drawers


Cocktail table - a table positioned in front of the major seating units which provides a surface for serving


Coffer - multi-functional traveling chest with handles and a domed lid but without feet, usually made of oak


COM/COL - Furniture industry term for "Customer`s own material" or "Customer`s own leather." Typically expressed in square yards for fabric(COM) and in square feet for leather(COL). Figure references the amount of material required for custom fabric or leather coverings.


Commode - French term for a chest-of-drawers


Console - a table intended to stand against a wall, between windows


Cornice - horizontal top portion on a piece of furniture


Credence table - a type of small table used for storing food before serving; generally a semi-circular table with a hinged top


Credenza - a long side cabinet used for serving and storage with shelves on the ends


Crossbanding - veneered edge to tabletops and drawer fronts, at right angles to the main veneer


Crown molding - transitional, or terminal element that contours or outlines the edges and surfaces on a projection or cavity, such as a cornice, architrave, capital, arch, base, or jamb; the surface of a molding is modeled with recesses and reliefs, which either maintain a constant profile or are set in rhythmically repeated patterns


Curio - a cabinet for storing collectibles and knick-knacks


Cushion drawer - a convex drawer below a cornice that runs the full width of a piece of furniture



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Damask - a heavy, reversible fabric featuring a pattern which is distinguished from the background by contrasting luster


Davenport - a British term describing a small writing desk


Daybed - a seating piece, which can also serve as a bed


Dentil moulding - a moulding style consisting of a row of equally spaced carved rectangles or "teeth"


Diamond tufting - an arrangement of buttons which yields a diamond shaped pattern on the back of the piece


Double-doweled - a method of joining two pieces of wood which uses two dowel pins instead of one to ensure no shifting


Dovetailing - series of interlocking joints used to join sections of timber together


Drawer-lining - term referring to the side of a drawer


Dresser - a low long chest of drawers used for storing clothes


Drop handle - a pear-shaped handle made popular in the late 17th century

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