Words we don't use any more

Brassier.

Sunday best, handkerchief, courting, eiderdown.

Singlet.

Mantlepiece
Bureau
Tallboy
Dresser
Display cabinet

Such an interesting thread. Having read all the posts I realise my grandchildren would not understand anything that has been mentioned. And I doubt my adult children would either.
My contribution is cruet set.

I'm going back a generation further - my grandparents always referred to the 'wireless', not the 'radio'. For me it was a radio, and was - still is - a part of my life. But my own children long-since stopped listening to the radio, and to my grandchildren, that word must sound totally archaic now!

Forsooth
Strumpet
Walkman
Floppy Disc
Scaramouche (unless you frequently sing the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody)

Will you do the fandango?

MissAdventure

Will you do the fandango?

Lol - I should have sung to the end of that line, than I could have claimed fandango

The box- the tv.
Couch.

Kate1949

Housecoat (dressing gown)

My husband still calls it that.

Dictaphone.
As in "May i use your dictaphone"?
"No, use your finger like everybody else!"

"Stout" is a good one.
We had a delightful but undeniably bonny girl in our class of 14 year olds and she subscribed , like most of us, to converting the school uniform skirt to a mini by rolling up the waist band. This provoked one of the nuns to state at form time (without naming names thank God) that if you are " stout" you should dress accordingly.
I hasten to point out that stoutness has stalked me my entire life.......

Vestibule - entrance hall and quilt for duvet.

As well , "bonny" , "terrifying" and "frightening "often displaced by the puerile "scary". How I hate hearing adults use that word.

Casdon

Words my parents still use but I haven’t heard anybody else say for many years are chuntering and gallivanting.

We still chunter!

Grannmarie

Mantlepiece
Bureau
Tallboy
Dresser
Display cabinet

Totally!!!!!

Underskirt
Petticoat
Slip

All mean the same thing!

'Don't forget to pull the chain'...

A GM of mine used to say stout - she never said fat, unless it meant meat fat.

And I’m reminded of a line in the first Forsyte Saga series ‘My dear boy, how stout you’re getting!’ As said by one of the elderly Forsyte sisters to her brother Swithin, IIRC.

Other words,

Balderdash
Rapscallion
Slattern
Brassiere

No longer hear - he/she's a rum un. Meaning strange or odd.

Panty girdle

Magenta8

I was thinking about words that my parents used that are not in common usage anymore.

The ones that spring to mind are; slacks (trousers), wind cheater (anorak), wireless (radio) and drawers (knickers).

I am sure there are many more and probably some interesting regional words that have fallen into disuse.

When going out to play in cold weather without my coat, my Nan used to say 'Don't forget your jerkin' (Anorak type coat !)

Oh and what about 'Siling down' (Raining heavily )

Cheerio! I found a letter one of my grandmother's brothers wrote to her circa 1940s and that's how he signed off