"Commode"

[Robin Hamilton]

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My parents had a "commode" which was a small chest of drawers==pr rather, it
had one drawer.  It wasn't a toilet.

Paul Johnston
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I had one of each.  The furniture item, inherited from my mother, was a
curved chest, about four foot high, with a full door enclosing three
shelves, not a set of drawers.   (My daughter inherited, or took possession,
of this, completely filled with upmarket china.)

The other item, a brown wooden box resembling a two-foot cube with small
doors on the front, I bought for a couple of pounds in a junk shop, as it
intrigued me.  It was only later, to my delight, that I realised it was a
pukka commode and had once enclosed a chamber pot.  (I still have it, and
use it for storing stationary.)

For what this is worth ...

Robin

On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:09 PM, victor steinbok wrote:

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> I really would not be able to describe the use as "uncommon" as I

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