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tallboy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Furniture
tall·boy /ˈtɔːlbɔɪ $ ˈtɒːl-/ noun [countable]  British EnglishDHF a tall piece of wooden furniture with several drawers 〔带有好几层抽屉的〕高脚柜
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tallboyPhotographs, ornaments jammed anyhow on to whatever might accommodate them; furniture, chairs and tallboys that seemed to fight for space.He looked into the wardrobes and through the drawers in the dressing-table and tallboy.Upstairs, Sergeant Joe noticed the partly open drawer in his tallboy.There was a pre-war bed and a prewar tallboy and a pre-war wardrobe and patterned lino on the floor.His head reminded Mrs Price of her old pomander stuck with cloves, forgotten in some pungent tallboy.On the tallboy was an inkstand with four wells, a squat bottle of ink in each.
tall·boy nounChineseSyllable
several wooden a Corpus furniture with piece of drawers tall


tallboy
tallboy /ˈtɔːlbɔɪ $ ˈtɒːl-/ noun [countable]
British English a tall piece of wooden furniture with several drawers


tall·boyBrE /ˈtɔːlbɔɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɔːlbɔɪ/ 🔊 (BrE) (NAmE high·boy) nouna tall piece of furniture with drawers, used for storing clothes in (带抽屉的)高衣柜