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Welsh dresser

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English

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An empty Welsh dresser

Noun

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Welsh dresser (plural Welsh dressers)

  1. A piece of furniture used to store and display crockery. [from 19th c.]
    • 1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 14:
      They furnished the house with mahogany sideboard, leather settee, oak Welsh-dresser – handsome furniture […].