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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