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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| 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
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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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