dressing table

American  

noun

• dressing tables
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dressing tables
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dressing table

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

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dressing table

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

"The main bedroom has still got the dressing table where Joanna Page was there with Matthew Horne," said Lisa.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 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

I live in just one room now, with some saggy straw chairs, a wardrobe whose mirror has gone yellow, a dressing table, and a brass bed.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus