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dresser en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdɹɛsə/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
    • The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie:
    • 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, →OCLC, page 29:
    • 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. […], →OCLC:
  2. (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.

Forms

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dressers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

kitchen dresser · dresserlike · skin dresser · Scotch dresser · Welsh dresser

Translations (47)

pt cómoda (bedroom furniture) · fr commode (bedroom furniture) · bg тоалетка (bedroom furniture) · hu öltözőasztal (bedroom furniture) · cs prádelník (bedroom furniture) · io komodo (bedroom furniture) · cmn 五斗櫃 /五斗柜 (bedroom furniture) · it credenza (kitchen furniture) · hu tolalettasztal (bedroom furniture) · hu tálalóasztal (kitchen furniture) · ru комо́д (bedroom furniture) · uk ми́сник (kitchen furniture) · es cómoda (bedroom furniture) · pl szyfoniera (bedroom furniture) · ja 箪笥 (bedroom furniture) · yi קאַמאָד (bedroom furniture) · hu konyhaszekrény (kitchen furniture) · tr şifonyer (bedroom furniture) · hu sublót (bedroom furniture) · hu edényespolc (kitchen furniture) · ca escudeller (kitchen furniture) · ga drisiúr (kitchen furniture) · hu kredenc (kitchen furniture) · hu fiókos szekrény (bedroom furniture) · nb kommode (bedroom furniture) · hu komód (bedroom furniture) · nrf drécheux (bedroom furniture) · it cassettone (bedroom furniture) · ru ку́хонный шкаф (kitchen furniture) · bg кухненскибюфет (kitchen furniture) · hu fésülködőasztal (bedroom furniture) · hu pohárszék (kitchen furniture) · hu konyhakredenc (kitchen furniture) · de Kommode (bedroom furniture) · fa کمد (bedroom furniture) · hu tálaló (kitchen furniture) · pl kredens (kitchen furniture) · fi lipasto (bedroom furniture) · fr buffet (kitchen furniture) · es paje (bedroom furniture) · fi kaappi (kitchen furniture) · eo komodo (bedroom furniture) · da kommode (bedroom furniture) · cs kredenc (kitchen furniture) · ar كومودينو (bedroom furniture) · pt cômoda (bedroom furniture) · it comò (bedroom furniture)

dresser en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈdɹɛsə/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. One who dresses in a particular way.
    • He's a very snappy dresser.
  2. A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
    • The leading lady also went out of her way to congratulate the young neophyte effusively on her triumph—and then slapped her unfortunate dresser on very insufficient provocation; […] 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
  3. 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. 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:
  4. 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. 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:
  5. (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
    • 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:
  6. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
  7. A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
    • ore dresser
  8. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
  9. A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
  10. 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. 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7:

Forms

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dressers Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

stonemason · mason · breaker · crusher

Deriveds

stonedresser · window dresser · vinedresser · set dresser · flax-dresser · power dresser · cross-dresser

Hypernyms

body servant

Relateds

dressing · dress-up

Synonyms

bolt · bolter

Translations (9)

pl garderobiana (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · fi pukija (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · fr habilleur (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · pl osoba ubierająca się w określony sposób (one who dresses in a particular way) · ga éadaitheoir (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · hu öltöztető (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · pl garderobiany (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · it camerinista (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) · fi pukeutuja (one who dresses in a particular way)