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Dresser
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 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 One who dresses in a particular way.
"He's a very snappy dresser."
- 3 furniture with drawers for keeping clothes wordnet
- 4 An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror. US
- 5 A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
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- 6 a cabinet with shelves wordnet
- 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."
- 8 low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup wordnet
- 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."
- 10 a wardrobe assistant for an actor wordnet
- 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."
- 12 a person who dresses in a particular way wordnet
- 13 A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- 14 A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
"ore dresser"
- 15 A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. dated
- 16 A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- 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
From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.
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