highboy
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈhaɪˌbɔɪ/
:
cómoda alta
- She decided to buy the highboy to store her winter clothes.
- an antique highboy
Examples
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I've been keeping my ammo in the top drawer of a highboy so kids can't reach it.
Blog text (10) -
The room is decorated simply: a high antique bed, unopened boxes, a highboy, and an antique mirror leaning against the wall.
Fiction book (1998) -
Despite a rocky history with jobs that hadn't paid -- last year as an ambulance driver and now, just one day at a time, as manager of a nearby health food store -- Hilary had somehow spent a lot on some of the things in the room: the old Chinese rug, maroon with pink, a dark tree shape stabbing through it; the chest of drawers, tall mahogany, a highboy she thought it was called, which held much of what she owned.
Fiction book (2000) -
Somewhere is a Tidewater Virginia bedroom, copied from a picture in p71 Nutshell News, with blue velvet hangings, an inlaid table, and blue delftware on the polished highboy.
Fiction book (1993) -
The antique store had a beautiful highboy with intricate carvings.
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In the corner of the bedroom stood a tall highboy adorned with family photos.
Synonyms
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2.6
A piece of furniture with drawers for storing clothes and small items
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8.1
A tall elegant chest with drawers for storing clothes
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8.8
A tall chest of drawers that stores clothes
A tall chest of drawers for storing clothes and sheets
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Highboy combines high ('tall') and boy; furniture makers once used 'boy' in names like lowboy for a smaller chest. So a highboy is the taller chest of drawers that stands on legs.