clothes-press

British  

noun

1. a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet

---

Example Sentences

Then he stepped into his bed-chamber, where he took from the clothes-press an elegant travelling suit.

From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Bilse, Fritz Oswald

Then it was that dread, indefinite ghosts lurked behind every door, hid in every clothes-press, or lay in wait beneath every bed.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

"Ugh! how I creak; now I shall certainly get the gout, like the old clothes-press, ugh!"

From A Christmas Greeting by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

C., a door; L.C., second and smaller door; R.C., practicable window; L., alcove, supposed to contain bed; at the back, a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles, etc.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis

A thick woollen carpet covered the floor; there were a bureau, a clothes-press, a table, and other articles needful to make it comfortable.

From Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready by Alger, Horatio