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/drˈɛsər/ Listen

noun

dresser n.

One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

(Mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

(a)

A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

(b)

A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils. "The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine."

Dresser n. A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Dresser'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dresser" Quotes from Famous Books

... Julius A. Dresser, who visited him first in 1860. Of him Mr. Dresser says: "The first person in this age who penetrated the depths of truth so far as to discover and bring forth a true science of life, and publicly apply it to the healing of the ...

— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... complexion bright, but his eyes of a light blue, like chalk water, water without reflections or waves, eyes wonderfully pure, changed the common expression of his features, and took away from him that look of a vine-dresser which ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... You can well imagine how poor Mrs. Fennell thought that the end of the world was coming when she saw every bit of ware on the kitchen dresser smashed in pieces no larger than threepenny bits on the floor. And the alarm clock that woke Mr. Fennell every morning and reminded him that it was time to get up and make his wife's breakfast, which she always got in bed, struck dumb for ever with its works ...

— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien

... in a gay little French boudoir robe of jade and citron, sat huddled in a chair, like a mute, terrified child, in the hand of her dresser, who was shaking out the long, damp hair and fanning it with ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... making industrious search for it, found it, and applied herself to a deep study of it, resting her white elbows on the dresser, and looking as if she had been suddenly called upon to master its contents or be led to the stake. She could not help being intense and in earnest even over this every-day ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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