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highboy
/ 藞丑补瑟藢产蓴瑟 /
noun
- a tall chest of drawers in two sections, the lower section being a lowboy Brit equivalenttallboy
Example Sentences
I passed by one encampment in D.C. last week that included a Queen Anne highboy dresser, angled as though it were in the corner of a master bedroom, just outside the tent.
Appraiser Elizabeth Stewart of Santa Barbara, California, recently appraised a 鈥渂eautiful鈥 18th-century highboy, or double chest of drawers, and had to break some bad news to its owners.
Their dogs were also suspicious of the 1950s highboy chest of drawers and canopy bed, as they 鈥渨ould not stop barking at it.鈥
A Philadelphia highboy had been moved out into the hall, and, together with Mrs. Glass鈥檚 person, it blocked Zooey鈥檚 passage.
Throughout the first act, Julia is preoccupied with the idea of selling Grandmother Wentworth's highboy to an antiques dealer so she can use the money to fund a trip to Paris.
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