And I always thought this was just a rural Kentucky thang[sic].  https://homewords99.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/chester-drawers/?fbclid=IwAR3h387_Au0hM1qdFy60UulgXTGNh4tSTdb8PpuotSv9B3BFxhNDriI5lZs

Edited November 17, 20205 yr by kmealy

A woman I used to work with had a piece she called a chifforobe.  New to me.

 

And one of my retail customer's back office lady always said "arm-Wooah"    Je ne sais pas qu'elle parle Français.

When I saw the topic headline, I thought back to a completely different "Chester". When W.C.Fields did many of his skits (often on the radio), one of his sponsors was Lucky Strikes. To get a dig in on the sponsor, he often made it a point to mention his (fictitious) brother "Chester". 

 

Thanks for the lesson on how the name came about.

That was an interesting read, but I didn't see how we got to Chester Drawers. My mom (who isn't from KY, but rather SW OH) always pronounced it "chester drawers" (as I recall). But she did marry my dad, who is from southern KY....so maybe she got it from him. Somewhere early in my life I figured out (or found out) it was "chest of drawers". I had also picked up on one or two of the other names mentioned in the article; I had never heard of one called a "commode" which was always a toilet to me. Fun article!

Chiffarobe my be a southern term but to me it was a tall chest with drawers on one side and on the other a full length mirror on a door to hanging clothes area. Thanks for a very interesting article . Apparently the still make Chiffarobes.

I'm thinking Chester wouldn't like having his "drawers" on display.