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dresser
1[ dres-er ]
noun
- a dressing table or bureau.
- a sideboard or set of shelves for dishes and cooking utensils.
- Obsolete. a table or sideboard on which food is dressed for serving.
dresser
2[ dres-er ]
noun
- a person who dresses.
- a person employed to dress actors, care for costumes, etc., at a theater, television studio, or the like.
- Chiefly British. a surgeon's assistant.
- a person who dresses in a particular manner, as specified:
a fancy dresser;
a careful and distinctive dresser.
- any of several tools or devices used in dressing materials.
- Metalworking.
- a block, fitting into an anvil, on which pieces are forged.
- a mallet for shaping sheet metal.
- a tool for truing the surfaces of grinding wheels.
dresser
1/ ˈdrɛsə /
noun
- a person who dresses in a specified way
a fashionable dresser
- theatre a person employed to assist actors in putting on and taking off their costumes
- a tool used for dressing stone or other materials
- a person who assists a surgeon during operations
- See window-dresser
dresser
2/ ˈdrɛsə /
noun
- a set of shelves, usually also with cupboards or drawers, for storing or displaying dishes, etc
- a chest of drawers for storing clothing in a bedroom or dressing room, often having a mirror on the top
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Example Sentences
Kanimba was horrified to see her dad — always an impeccable dresser — in such debilitated condition.
These workstations can transform a kitchen table, coffee table, or dresser into a productivity center.
Radcliff said that in her two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, she is currently using the top of her dresser in her bedroom as a desk while using a dining room chair as a seat.
He placed a television on a dresser, eye-height, and paced around the room.
She gets Sarah to come to town for opening night and be her dresser, for old time’s sake.
As a child, he remembers watching his father, “a very sharp dresser,” add the final touches to his suits—a tie.
The room held a sizable amount of old, worn furniture: the bed, a studio couch, three stuffed chairs, a chifforobe and a dresser.
Pop music, much like a teenager with a dresser full of training bras and her first summer job, is going through a lot changes.
Petersen was a convener of people, known on multiple continents as a careful thinker, dynamic speaker, and dapper dresser.
Kate might also want to think about taking a dresser or a lady's maid.
Dorothy turned to the dresser, and a strange expression came over her face.
Why, Tip says she's the best-lookin' woman in the walley, and that she's a terrible tasty dresser.
Then she looked more hopeful as her eyes rested on Betty, who was sorting the contents of a too-crowded dresser drawer.
"And so we had," said Betty, closing the dresser drawer with a bang and coming unexpectedly to her aid.
He was a swagger dresser and more marked than many because he was strikingly handsome.
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