dresser
1 Americannoun
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a dressing table or bureau.
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a sideboard or set of shelves for dishes and cooking utensils.
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Obsolete. a table or sideboard on which food is dressed for serving.
noun
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a person who dresses.
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a person employed to dress actors, care for costumes, etc., at a theater, television studio, or the like.
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Chiefly British. a surgeon's assistant.
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a person who dresses in a particular manner, as specified.
a fancy dresser;
a careful and distinctive dresser.
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any of several tools or devices used in dressing materials.
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Metalworking.
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a block, fitting into an anvil, on which pieces are forged.
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a mallet for shaping sheet metal.
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a tool for truing the surfaces of grinding wheels.
noun
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a person who dresses in a specified way
a fashionable dresser
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theatre a person employed to assist actors in putting on and taking off their costumes
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a tool used for dressing stone or other materials
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a person who assists a surgeon during operations
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See window-dresser
noun
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a set of shelves, usually also with cupboards or drawers, for storing or displaying dishes, etc
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a chest of drawers for storing clothing in a bedroom or dressing room, often having a mirror on the top
Etymology
Origin of dresser1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English dresso(u)r, dressur(e), “sideboard,” from Anglo-French; Middle French dresseur, Old French dreçor, dreceor(e), equivalent to dreci(ier) “to dress ” + -ore -ory 2
Origin of dresser2
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English: “guide; director”; dress, -er 1
Example Sentences
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She placed the lighter on top of my dresser.
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I was expecting something similar to the dorms back at the Academy, small no-nonsense rooms equipped with a bed, dresser, and desk, but these couldn’t be more different.
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The lights weren’t on in his room, but light was spilling in from the hallway, so he could make out dim shapes: his dresser, his desk, the posts of his bed.
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Instead, I name my spiky friend and display him on my dresser, like a houseplant or oversized pet rock.
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Once, Mom had tried to reorganize his dresser drawers because she thought he could “use some help.”
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