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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