ENGLISH LANGUAGE
MINE, MINERS AND MINING.
Task 2.8
Find out what each of the following pieces of furniture were and makes brief notes on each:
1. Chesterfield
A couch or sofa is a piece of furniture for seating two or more people in the form of a bench, with or without armrests, that is partially or entirely upholstered, and often fitted with springs and tailored cushions. Although a couch is used primarily for seating, it may be used for reclining.
2. Tallboy
A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a double chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. The tallboy was the wardrobe of the 18th century, but it eventually gave place to the modern type of wardrobe, which, with its sliding doors, was speedily found to be not only capacious as its predecessor but more convenient of access.
3. Secretaire
A secretary desk is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture, not meant to be disassembled after manufacture, no matter what problems might be incurred in moving it from place to place.
4. Settle
A settle is a wooden bench, usually with arms and a high back, long enough to accommodate three or four sitters.
5. Canterbury
6. Whatnot
A what-not is a piece of furniture derived from the French étagère, which was exceedingly popular in England in the first three-quarters of the 19th century. It usually consists of slender uprights or pillars, supporting a series of shelves for holding china, ornaments, trifles, or what not, hence the allusive name. In its English form, although a convenient piece of drawing room furniture, it was rarely beautiful. The early mahogany examples are, however, sometimes graceful in their simplicity.
7. Credenza
Historically, a credenza was a piece of furniture comprising a central cupboard...