dressing table

American  

noun

1. a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.

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dressing table British  

noun

1. a piece of bedroom furniture with a mirror and a set of drawers for clothes, cosmetics, etc

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Etymology

Origin of dressing table

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

Boyce shared a bedroom with her sister, Mamie, that was decorated by their mother with red-robin wallpaper and a small dressing table.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

“I did the calculations sitting at my wife’s dressing table because I didn’t have a desk or an office.”

From Scientific American • May 20, 2022

“At one point, we had every gurney, every dressing table, every embalming table had somebody on it,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2021

She used her dressing table as a desk and studied at several different colleges as Army postings moved us all round the country.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2021

In her younger years, with prescience and good management, Mammachi had collected all her falling hair in a small, embroidered purse that she kept on her dressing table.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy