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highboy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

See high and lowboy.

Meanings

1. A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
   • mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles 1897, Katharine Lee Bates, American Literature:
   • […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […] 1929 June, Herbert Cescinsky, “American furniture problems”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, volume 54, number 315, page 313:
   • (US) National Gallery of Art During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. … The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.
2. (dated) One who enjoys the high life.
3. (dated) A political highflier.

Forms

Coordinates

lowboy

Hypernyms

tallboy

Translations (3)

mk ви́сока ко́мода (double-chest elevated on cabriole legs) · bg скрин (double-chest elevated on cabriole legs) · fi korkea lipasto (double-chest elevated on cabriole legs)