Synonyms for tallboy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tawl-boi

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɔlˌbɔɪ

Définition of tallboy

Origin : "high glass or goblet," 1670s, from tall + boy, though the exact signification is unclear. In reference to a high chest of drawers it is recorded from 1769, here perhaps a partial loan-translation of French haut bois, literally "high wood."

As in chest of drawers : noun cabinet with drawers

Example sentences :

Something more nearly approaching the genuine "tallboy" is shown in the coloured frontispiece.
Extract from : « Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne » by J. P. Blake

The tallboy was purely the outcome of a demand for something more commodious than the early form.
Extract from : « Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne » by J. P. Blake

By easy stages we arrive at the tallboy pure and simple, sometimes called "double chest" or "chest on chest."
Extract from : « Little Books About Old Furniture. Volume II. The Period of Queen Anne » by J. P. Blake

There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead.
Extract from : « Berry And Co. » by Dornford Yates

Facing the window and the sunshine was a facsimile of the tallboy chest which I had coveted so fiercely two hours before.
Extract from : « Berry And Co. » by Dornford Yates

But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!
Extract from : « English Fairy Tales » by Flora Annie Steel

The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase.
Extract from : « Berry And Co. » by Dornford Yates

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