Definitions for commodes

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commodes com·mode

Spelling: [kuh-mohd]

IPA: /kəˈmoʊd/

Commodes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in commodes (cdemmoos).

Definitions for commodes

noun

1. a low cabinet or similar piece of furniture, often highly ornamental, containing drawers or shelves.
2. a stand or cupboard containing a chamber pot or washbasin.
3. toilet (def 1).
4. a portable toilet, especially one on a chairlike frame with wheels, as for an invalid.
5. an elaborate headdress consisting chiefly of a high framework decorated with lace, ribbons, etc., worn perched on top of the hair by women in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Origin of commodes

1680-90; French Latin commodus convenient, equivalent to com- com- + modus mode¹

Examples for commodes

In a drawer of this commode yellow soap and a comb and brush.

The commode is decorated with gilt ornaments worth a thousand pistoles.

He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked.

They visited my room, and searched my commode and my trunks.

The imperial N may be seen on the corners of the console tables and on the commode.

Again the old woman began to bustle about, and to open the drawers of her commode.

We can see her commode, her top-not, and her fontage, for she wears no rayonné.

He descended from the commode as softly as possible, taking care not to make the least noise.

In that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter.

She caught sight of herself in an old mirror, which stood upon a commode.