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plural dressers
An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. quotations examples
The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 29
An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror. examples
One who dresses in a particular way. examples
(theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume). examples
A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing. quotations examples
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.
1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47
The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.
2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107
(medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc. quotations examples
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.
1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section I
Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576
(UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual. quotations examples
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.
2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan
A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting. examples
(dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use. examples
(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal. examples
One who dresses or prepares stone. quotations examples
At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7