Tallboy vs Dresser - What's the difference?
tallboy | dresser |
A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.
(US) A tall can of beer, either 16 ounces or one half litre.
(nautical) A kind of sail, a spanker.
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:
As nouns the difference between tallboy and dresser
is that tallboy is a tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture while dresser is an item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.tallboy
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Noun
(wikipedia tallboy) (en noun)See also
*lowboy (without the wardrobe)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.
