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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɹɛsə/
• 韻: -ɛsə(ɹ)

語源 1

From 中期英語 dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

名詞

dresser (plural dressers)

1. (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
   • 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie:

     The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:

     The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.

2. (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dresser, equivalent to dress +‎ -er.

名詞

dresser (plural dressers)

1. One who dresses in a particular way.

   He's a very snappy dresser.

2. (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     The leading lady also went out of her way to congratulate the young neophyte effusively on her triumph—and then slapped her unfortunate dresser on very insufficient provocation; […]

3. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.

   Hypernym: body servant

   • 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

     In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room.

   • 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107:

     The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.

4. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section I:

     On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:

     Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.

5. (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
   • 2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan:

     Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.

6. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.

   Synonyms: bolt, bolter

7. A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).

   Coordinate terms: breaker, crusher

   ore dresser

8. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
9. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
10. One who dresses or prepares stone.

    Coordinate terms: mason, stonemason

    • 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7:

      At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• redress

発音

• IPA: /ˈdrɛsər(ə)/

名詞

dresser

1. (Late Middle English, rare) leader, guide

派生した語

• English: dresser

参照

• “dresser, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.