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/drˈɛsɪŋ tˈeɪbəl/ Listen

noun

Dressing table n. A table, usually having a vertical back piece containing a mirror, at which a person may sit while dressing or applying makeup, and on which articles for the toilet stand. It often has drawers for toiletries, clothing, or accessories. It is also called a vanity or vanity table.

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Etymology of 'Dressing table'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dressing table" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cappy sneaked into his daughter's apartments and found a photograph of Matt Peasley in a hammered silver frame on Florry's dressing table. ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... to do but to go back to the school and try to invent a plausible story for their condition. All the cold cream in the handsome glass jars on Ada's dressing table could not heal her smarting face ...

— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

... him? And then the thought of her situation—alone; shut up in this small room; about to venture forth on the open sea with this ignorant crew—so overcame her that she hastily snatched at the bell on the dressing table and rang it violently. Almost instantly there was ...

— Macleod of Dare • William Black

... where they should go for plants, she fixed up an attractive basket filled with her plants. She asked no exorbitant price, but a fair one for a little girl's good work. One year she bought herself a dressing table from her garden earnings. I think that ...

— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... I found a petit bleu on my husband's dressing table one morning—I wish to Heaven he would be more careful—and I—I read it. It began 'Mon gros bebe,' and was signed 'Ta petite Anita,' and—naturally I was furious. I have often been jealous of Addison, but he has always managed to prove ...

— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett

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