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dresser

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dress·er

1[dres-er]
noun
1.
a person who dresses.
2.
a person employed to dress actors, care for costumes, etc., at a theater, television studio, or the like.
3.
Chiefly British. a surgeon's assistant.
4.
a person who dresses in a particular manner, as specified: a fancy dresser; a careful and distinctive dresser.
5.
any of several tools or devices used in dressing materials.
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6.
Metalworking.
a.
a block, fitting into an anvil, on which pieces are forged.
b.
a mallet for shaping sheet metal.
7.
a tool for truing the surfaces of grinding wheels.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English: guide. See dress, -er1

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dress·er

2[dres-er]
noun
1.
a dressing table or bureau.
2.
a sideboard or set of shelves for dishes and cooking utensils.
3.
Obsolete. a table or sideboard on which food is dressed for serving.

Origin:
1375–1425; Middle English dresso(u)r sideboard < Anglo-French; Middle French dresseur, Old French dreceor(e), equivalent to dreci(er) to dress + -ore -ory2 (French dressoir)
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dresser1 (ˈdrɛsə)
 
n
1.  a set of shelves, usually also with cupboards or drawers, for storing or displaying dishes, etc
2.  (US) a chest of drawers for storing clothing in a bedroom or dressing room, often having a mirror on the top
 
[C14 dressour, from Old French dreceore, from drecier to arrange; see dress]

dresser2 (ˈdrɛsə)
 
n
1.  a person who dresses in a specified way: a fashionable dresser
2.  theatre a person employed to assist actors in putting on and taking off their costumes
3.  a tool used for dressing stone or other materials
4.  (Brit) a person who assists a surgeon during operations
5.  (Brit) See window-dresser

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dresser
"table, sideboard," c.1393, from O.Fr. dresseur "table to prepare food," from dresser "prepare, dress" (see dress (v.)). Meaning of "chest, dressing bureau" appeared 1895.
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dresser

a cupboard used for the display of fine tableware, such as silver, pewter, or earthenware. Dressers were widely used in England beginning in Tudor times, when they were no more than a side table occasionally fitted with a row of drawers. The front stood on three or five turned (shaped on a lathe) legs linked by stretchers. Horizontal planes such as the dresser's top and drawer fronts were decorated with matching molding. A low backboard, often with narrow shelves or drawers, was introduced about 1690, and, soon afterward, a decorative shelf beneath the main drawers was added. Shelves without backs were added later to display English delftware. Dressers of this type became a common feature of the middle-class kitchen up to the 19th century.

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