dresser
noun/ˈdresə(r)/
/ˈdresər/
- (also Welsh dresser)(British English) a large piece of wooden furniture with shelves in the top part and cupboards below, used for displaying and storing cups, plates, etc.
- I put the kettle on and took two cups and saucers down from the dresser.
- The china display in her dresser was all blue and white.
- There was a small dresser in the corner of the room.
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- (North American English) (North American English also bureau, chest of drawers British and North American English)a piece of furniture with drawers (= parts like boxes built into it with handles on the front for pulling them out) for keeping clothes in
- (used with an adjective) a person who dresses in the way mentioned
- a snappy dresser
- (in a theatre) a person whose job is to take care of an actor’s clothes for a play and help him/her to get dressedWordfinderTopics Film and theatrec1
Word Originsenses 1 to 2 late Middle English (denoting a kitchen sideboard or table on which food was prepared): from Old French dresseur, from dresser ‘prepare’, based on Latin directus ‘direct, straight’.
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