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Highboy   /hˈaɪbˌɔɪ/   Listen
Highboy

noun
1.
A tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs.  Synonym: tallboy.






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"Highboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... drawer of a tall "highboy" and, from the tumbled mass of apparel therein took one of his own ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln

... It vaunted itself as a regular turkey and was extensively charged for as such on the bill. It wasn't though. It was an ancient and a shabby ruin—a genuine antique if ever there was one, with those high-polished knobs all down the front, like an old-fashioned highboy, and Chippendale legs. To make up for its manifold imperfections the chef back in the kitchen had crowded it full of mysterious laboratory products and then varnished it over with a waterproof ...
— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb



Words linked to "Highboy" :   dresser, chest of drawers, bureau, chest, tallboy



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