Dresser

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. UK

    "The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine."

  2. 2
    One who dresses in a particular way.

    "He's a very snappy dresser."

  3. 3
    furniture with drawers for keeping clothes wordnet
  4. 4
    An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror. US
  5. 5
    A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
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  1. 6
    a cabinet with shelves wordnet
  2. 7
    A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.

    "In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room."

  3. 8
    low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup wordnet
  4. 9
    A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.

    "On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's."

  5. 10
    a wardrobe assistant for an actor wordnet
  6. 11
    A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual. UK

    "Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas."

  7. 12
    a person who dresses in a particular way wordnet
  8. 13
    A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
  9. 14
    A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).

    "ore dresser"

  10. 15
    A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. dated
  11. 16
    A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
  12. 17
    One who dresses or prepares stone.

    "At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

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