See also:

• 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
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

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, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and two See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short drawers, the See also:

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

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
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

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, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

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
• BRASS (O. Eng. braes)

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
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

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 .