cartonnier

English

Etymology

French

Noun

cartonnier (plural cartonniers)

1. A cupboard for filing.
   • 2008 April 25, Wendy Moonan, “Making Their Way Back to the Garden”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Only Charlotte Moss incorporated real antiques: a set of Louis XV chairs, a 19th-century Italian bureau cabinet, a 19th-century French cartonnier to hold documents and an antique rug from Stark.

Anagrams

• nonerratic

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cartonnier m (plural cartonniers)

1. cartonnier

Noun

cartonnier m (plural cartonniers, feminine cartonnière)

1. cardboard vendor or maker

Further reading

• “cartonnier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.