What does hepplewhite mean?

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hepplewhite

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.63 in modern English

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A style of light, elegant furniture, often with shield-shaped chair backs, that was fashionable between about 1775 and 1800, associated with the cabinet-maker George Hepplewhite (1727?–1786).

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