lowboy

American  

[loh-boi] / ˈloʊˌbɔɪ /

noun

U.S. Furniture.

1. a low chest of drawers on short legs, resembling the lower low part of a highboy.

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lowboy British  

/ ˈləʊˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a table fitted with drawers

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Etymology

Origin of lowboy

First recorded in 1705–15; low ¹ + boy

Example Sentences

Turner’s lowboy fridge sits on the hardwood floor in the family’s dining room.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022

There’s a lowboy display case with some frozen items, and the meager shelf space is stocked with jars and cans, but there’s only one reason shoppers visit Staubitz Market: meat.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2017

After breakfast Fergus came to pry open the drawers in the lowboy that had refused to budge the day before.

From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Grabo, Carl Henry

She hung the evening gown she had worn all day in the locker, laid her toilet articles on the dresser, and set the brass hand warmer on the lowboy.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

It was so late that Fergus had no time to see to the drawers which refused to open in the lowboy and the highboy.

From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Grabo, Carl Henry