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

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

"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

Sideboard—Low, broad, after Hepplewhite or Sheraton, a Welsh dresser with Windsor chairs.

From Better Homes in America Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922 by Meloney, Mrs W.B.

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