Search for crossword answers and clues
Bedroom bureau
Answer for the clue "Bedroom bureau ", 7 letters:
dresser
Alternative clues for the word dresser
Word definitions for dresser in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils. 2 An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror. 3 (context dated English) A table or bench on which meat and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "person who prepares or furnishes," agent noun from dress (v.). Meaning "table, sideboard," is late 14c., from Old French dresseur , dreçoir "table to prepare food," from dresser "prepare, dress." Meaning "chest, dressing bureau" is from 1895.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a desk/table/dresser etc drawer ▪ The passports are in my desk drawer. snappy dresser (= someone who wears fashionable clothes ) Welsh dresser window dresser COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE snappy ▪ Alec Llewellyn ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of drawers , chest , bureau ] a person who dresses in a particular way; "she's an elegant dresser"; "he's a meticulous dresser" a wardrobe assistant for an actor [syn: actor's assistant ] low table ...
Usage examples of dresser.
He reached for the bottle of liquid antacid that sat on the dresser, opened it, tilted it, and drank deeply.
The hair on his head, a darker golden brown, was ruffled, for all the world as if his dresser had darted after him into the wings, and run a practised hand through his locks.
Next morning, driven to his hotel by Nat Fraser, Frank found not only his suitcases and the personal things that had been stolen from him by the muggers, but a pile of Swiss francs and Moroccan dirhams atop the rickety dresser.
An oval, ebony hairbrush came easily into his hand from the dresser and he used it to administer twelve hard smacks to her skirted bottom.
Malcolm warned her, his hand only inches from a hairbrush on the dresser.
Guida caught up a hanap of water from the dresser, and passed it to him.
Venaient dresser un etalage Qui rendait plus beau le passage, Au grand bien de tout reposant, Et honneur dudit exposant, Qui, tous les jours dessus ses hanches, Excepte fetes et dimanches, Temps de vacances a tout trafic, Faisoit debiter au public Denree a produire doctrine Dans la substance cerebrine.
Looking closely she sees that it consists of ants: a monstrous file composed of thousands of tiny creatures that scurry to and from the kitchen dresser, crossing the entire kitchen and climbing up the walls, to reach the lard that fills the majolica soup tureen shaped like a duck.
Matthew Maule glided across the room, silently closed the hidden cupboard, and lifted the dresser back against the wall.
Have you thought of asking the dresser where this - Mouche, did you call him - might be found?
The Nelding woman moved across the dim room and touched the light cube that stood on the rough dresser.
Weighty people with sharp corners: pushable, but so is the kitchen dresser.
She went to her dresser and fingered the few items she had unpacked and set on top of it.
Mulder by the door, Webber on the edge of the dresser, Andrews on the edge of the near bed.
Hepplewhite dresser carved with anthemion details and flocked with powdered silk?