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dressing table

NOUN
table for applying makeup
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Boyce shared a bedroom with her sister, Mamie, that was decorated by their mother with red-robin wallpaper and a small dressing table.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2025

He specializes in restoring midcentury items, such as a sideboard by the Danish designer Ib Kofod-Larsen and a dressing table by the British design company Archie Shine.

From New York Times Jul. 12, 2023

“I did the calculations sitting at my wife’s dressing table because I didn’t have a desk or an office.”

From Scientific American May 20, 2022

“At one point, we had every gurney, every dressing table, every embalming table had somebody on it,” he said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2021

In her younger years, with prescience and good management, Mammachi had collected all her falling hair in a small, embroidered purse that she kept on her dressing table.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy



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