Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Dresser

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

“The pewter plates on the dresser.”

Longfellow: Evangeline, i. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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