dresser
/ˈdɹɛsə/ noun C2- One who dresses in a particular way. · He's a very snappy dresser.
- A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting). · ore dresser
- A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
- A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Plural dressers
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On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
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