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PennyChan
 
Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 02:02 am
Joe cntinued, "I had a very interesting afternoon with Tom. We're talking about going into business together."
"Oh," Mom crossed to the vanity. "Business."

What does "crossed to the vanity" mean here?
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roger
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Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 02:07 am
@PennyChan,
I guess she walked over to the vanity while talking.

I'm not real sure what a vanitiy is, either, but I think it's a piece of furniture like a dressing table. Surely, it has a mirror.
laughoutlood
 
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Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 03:36 am
@roger,
roger is too modest to admit he could make a veritable bonfire of his
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 07:45 am
@roger,

Roger is right. A vanity table, to give it its full name.

It is an item of dressing-room (& bedroom) furniture, with a large mirror.
contrex
 
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Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 11:26 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:

It is an item of dressing-room (& bedroom) furniture, with a large mirror.


My sister had a kidney shaped one. Being English, she called it a "dressing table".
roger
 
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Reply Tue 8 Feb, 2011 03:14 pm
@contrex,
Confusing to me. We (in America) also have dressing tables, dressers, and vanities. I wouldn't be surprised that they are used interchangeably
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 10:57 am
@PennyChan,
The vanity is a polite name for the bathroom sink and the cabinet that it sits upon.

It likely means that she went from some position in the bathroom over to the vanity.

Here's an example of one.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=bath+vanities&hl=en&prmd=ivns&resnum=3&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=17011358441289997661&ei=HcdSTaSHBI6osQO977m_Bg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CIIBEPMCMAA
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contrex
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 11:39 am
@roger,
http://www.kidsbedroom.biz/images/94/girls_dressing_table_and_stool.jpg

If you can see the image, this is what is called a girl's "dressing table" in UK English.

JTT
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 04:00 pm
@contrex,
What do you Brits call the combo sink and cabinet in the bathroom, Contrex, McTag?
contrex
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 04:51 pm
@JTT,
JTT wrote:

What do you Brits call the combo sink and cabinet in the bathroom, Contrex, McTag?


What "combo sink and cabinet" in the bathroom? I haven't got one. I have a pedestal sink. I could spend £185 to get this vanity unit and toilet set. I would have to pay extra to get a wall mirror to put above it.

http://www.4bathrooms.co.uk/media/catalog/product//1/image/fec59bd64017c6104dd9dfe4d8fd631e/c/o/compactfurniture_big.jpg

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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 04:54 pm
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

http://www.kidsbedroom.biz/images/94/girls_dressing_table_and_stool.jpg

If you can see the image, this is what is called a girl's "dressing table" in UK English.




that's what we call a vanity in Canada
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 9 Feb, 2011 05:02 pm
@ehBeth,
A combination sink and cabinet in the bathroom is also called a vanity, in both the US and Canada.
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 10 Feb, 2011 03:53 am
@JTT,

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What do you Brits call the combo sink and cabinet in the bathroom, Contrex, McTag?


I have no idea. I don't think it's got a name, here.

I'd probably call it a boxed-in hand basin. (or sink)

But anything with the word "vanity" in it would have to include a mirror. Maybe modern designers have just borrowed the old names (modern bedrooms not usually being too large) for a dressing table or a vanity table and given it to this item of fitted furniture.
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laughoutlood
 
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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 08:22 pm
@PennyChan,
Quote:
Joe cntinued, "I had a very interesting afternoon with Tom. We're talking about going into business together."
"Oh," Mom crossed to the vanity. "Business."

What does "crossed to the vanity" mean here?


Joe and Tom were going into the deity business and Mom gestured in anthropomorphic certainty that she'd get a cut of the action.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 08:32 pm
@JTT,
JTT wrote:

A combination sink and cabinet in the bathroom is also called a vanity, in both the US and Canada.


you need a mirror as part of the unit for it to be a vanity in Canada
JTT
 
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Reply Sat 12 Feb, 2011 12:02 am
@ehBeth,
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you need a mirror as part of the unit for it to be a vanity in Canada


That's not true, Beth. The sink on a cabinet is called a vanity. Have you ever seen a set of blueprints? The sink is always called a vanity. Some units are sold with a top cabinet/mirror but many vanities come without that portion.

http://www.homedepot.ca/catalog/vanities/173237?gclid=CPLv6er3gacCFUS8KgodtCe0fQ

http://www.craneplumbing.com/searchResults.aspx?d=1&t=27

http://www.sears.ca/catalog/bathroom-vanities/1100255?extid=102309_ca_1search_2EN_3gogl_4Bath_5Bath_6bathroomvanities&gclid=CPei3ur3gacCFYa7KgodgXJBeg

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roger
 
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Reply Sat 12 Feb, 2011 02:15 am
@ehBeth,
Sure. The more vanity you got, the more mirrors you need.
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