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a wooden vault where you hide everything you refuse to fold into your life.
means A piece of bedroom furniture with drawers for storing clothes, or in another sense a person who dresses someone (or a particular kind of dressing).
from From the Old French 'dressoir,' a table or sideboard on which food was prepared and 'dressed' — that is, made ready — itself rooted in the verb 'dresser,' to arrange or set straight (a cousin of our 'dress' and ultimately of Latin 'directus,' set right). The kitchen sideboard for arranging dishes drifted, over time, into the bedroom and became the chest where you arrange yourself.
- name origin
- From French dressoir, where food was dressed for serving.
- forgotten cash
- Americans stash billions in drawers and forgotten pockets.
- sock graveyard
- Top drawer: where odd socks await reunions that never come.
- tip hazard
- Heavy dressers tip over, prompting modern anti-tip wall straps.
- highboy ancestor
- Tall colonial versions stacked drawers for ceiling-height storage flexing.
highboy dresser — tall chest of drawers, typically 5-6 feet high, popular in colonial american furniture from the 1700s
lowboy dresser — short dresser on legs, 2-3 feet high, paired with highboys in 18th-century bedroom sets
serpentine dresser — dresser with curved, wave-like front panels, signature chippendale design from 1750s-1780s