This article is within the scope of WikiProject Woodworking, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.WoodworkingWikipedia:WikiProject WoodworkingTemplate:WikiProject WoodworkingWoodworking articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Home Living, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of home-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Home LivingWikipedia:WikiProject Home LivingTemplate:WikiProject Home Livinghome articles
I have read that a "dresser" was not for dressing one's self originally, but rather was a piece of furniture found in a kitchen, dining area, or food preparation area. It use was to "dress" meat, hence a dresser. Only later did the term move to its more common day usage.
The original dresser had a chest of drawers underneath a thick slab top (for chopping and cutting) and typically had a high thin hutch for storing plates on edge, facing the room (probably for display).
a 'dresser' is another term for the type also known as a 'welsh cupboard', and, yes, it was/is a piece of kitchen furniture.Toyokuni3 (talk) 05:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not editing the page at this time since I don't have any good citations yet, but I'll look into it. I found the origins fascinating.
63.205.221.23700:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC) GoldCountryNetDude[reply]
I have a problem with referring to the era of construction as the Late Medieval period, when the earliest reference made is to the reign of Charles I, which is about 300 years past the Medieval era by my reckoning. Yuck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.193.65 (talk) 03:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The definition of the word "Stand-by" - is the usage correct?[edit]
while reading this article, I stumbled on the word "stand-by" as used in the sentence: "It has a long history as one of the stand-bys of a carpenter's workshop." I searched the online dictionary "Dictionary.com" but I didn't find a fitting definition.
I have requested a cite. The standard dictionaries, like Gloag, "A Short Dictionary of Furniture", require at least a writing surface for the contraption to be called a bureau, so these are not synonyms. Викидим (talk) 02:25, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]