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Dresser

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A kitchen dresser, the French dressoir, a sideboard, verb dresser, to raise, set up.        

“The pewter plates on the dresser.”

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Longfellow: Evangeline, i. 2.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Drawing the Nail
Drawlatches
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Dreadnought
Dream Authorship
Dreamer
Dreng
Dress your Jacket (or hide)
Dresser
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Drinke and Welcome
Drink like a Fish (To)
Drinking Healths
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Drive at (To)
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