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dresser

[dres-er] / ˈdrɛs ər /
NOUN
chest of drawers
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She handed him the landline phone, which was resting on a dresser by her side of the bed.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

On her dresser sat three, 8-ounce bags of powder: one empty, one unopened and one half-full.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Charvet, owned by the Colban family since the 1960s, claims to be the oldest shirtmaker in the world, having been founded by Joseph-Christophe Charvet, the son of Napoleon’s personal dresser.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

The child, who was not charged with any wrongdoing, told police he obtained the firearm by mounting a drawer to reach his mother's handbag on top of a dresser, where the handgun was kept.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

But when he was a young man studying medicine in Paris, Bigelow was a snappy dresser.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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