Welsh dresser

American  

noun

English Furniture.

1. a sideboard having drawers or compartments below and open, shallow shelves above.

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Welsh dresser British  

noun

1. a sideboard with drawers and cupboards below and open shelves above

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Etymology

Origin of Welsh dresser

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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Welsh dresser

In the cream-walled parlour, Welsh dolls shared an armchair, while a small Welsh dresser displayed blue and gold china and a bookcase containing Beatrix Potter books.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022

A Welsh dresser bigger than my bedroom hid the deepest quarter from sight.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

“Why, that’s what tells you that it’s a Welsh dresser of 1720.”

From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

"Leading features," I said, "a Welsh dresser, rush-bottomed chairs, gate-legged table, bookcases—" "Saxe-blue carpet," said Alison.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various

Travelling in America has for me one disadvantage—the fact that one has to sleep, like a dish on a Welsh dresser, in the same compartment with about forty people, six of whom surely snore.

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector