Welsh dresser

American  

noun

English Furniture.

1. a sideboard having drawers or compartments below and open, shallow shelves above.

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Welsh dresser British  

noun

1. a sideboard with drawers and cupboards below and open shelves above

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Etymology

Origin of Welsh dresser

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In the cream-walled parlour, Welsh dolls shared an armchair, while a small Welsh dresser displayed blue and gold china and a bookcase containing Beatrix Potter books.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022

A Welsh dresser bigger than my bedroom hid the deepest quarter from sight.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The old spode platter that reposed almost forgotten on the top shelf of a closet may come into its own on the Welsh dresser of your dining room.

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank

Sideboard—Low, broad, after Hepplewhite or Sheraton, a Welsh dresser with Windsor chairs.

From Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922 by Meloney, Mrs W.B.

Travelling in America has for me one disadvantage—the fact that one has to sleep, like a dish on a Welsh dresser, in the same compartment with about forty people, six of whom surely snore.

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector