Etymology

Chippendale

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Today it means: A style of furniture designed by, or resembling that of, Thomas Chippendale, generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. Full definition →

Old English ċīeping
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromċīeping“market”
  2. English todayChippendale

From an assimilated (alveolarized) variant of the placename Chippingdale, from Old English ċīeping (“market”) + dæl (“valley”). * (furniture): Named after English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishċīeping all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.