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Definition of Chest of drawers

1. Noun. Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes.

Definition of Chest of drawers

1. Noun. A piece of furniture which has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers stacked one above each other, used mainly for the storage of clean clothes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chest Of Drawers

Literary usage of Chest of drawers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"Oak Chest of Drawers, 1675-1700 52 42. Oak Chest of Drawers, 1675-1700 53 43. ... Inlaid Chest of Drawers, 1690-1700 58 49. Panelled Chest of Drawers, ..."

2. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"Captain Tinge (1653) had a sealskin trunk, six shillings ; a small chest of drawers, fifteen shillings ; a small cabinet, five shillings; a chest of drawers ..."

3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1853 There's a chest of drawers to set against the door ; so you'll be free from intrusion.—' Life Scenes,' p. 48. 1856 He sticks and catches just like an ..."

4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... it would be meaningless. jest of the Englishman who dumfounded his landlady by asking for a chest of drawers under the shocking and mystifying formula, ..."

5. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"... Eckhart—Misunderstanding of mere understanding — The wickedest then a possible divine reservoir — Adam Smith and the chest of drawers — Absurd for Kant ..."

6. Antique Furniture by Frederick William Burgess (1915)
"THE chest of drawers. The chest was furnished with a drawer in Cromwellian days ; it then became a chest with drawers, and a little later a chest of drawers ..."

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