highboy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]highboy (plural highboys)
- A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
- 1897, Katharine Lee Bates, American Literature:
- mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles
- 1929 June, Herbert Cescinsky, “American furniture problems”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, volume 54, number 315, page 313:
- […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […]
- (US) National Gallery of Art
- During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. [...] The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.
- (dated) One who enjoys the high life.
- (dated) A political highflier.
Translations
[edit]double-chest elevated on cabriole legs
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