Dresser or Bureau - What's the difference?
dresser | bureau |
An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
* 1847 , Longfellow,
* 1913 ,
An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
(dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
One who dresses in a particular way.
A wardrobe assistant in a theatre.
(medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , I:
Office.
Desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
(US) for clothes.
As nouns the difference between dresser and bureau
is that dresser is an item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils while bureau is office.dresser
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dreceur, from the verb dresser.Noun
(en noun)- The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
- 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.
Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- He's a very snappy dresser .
- 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.