highboy
nounEtymology See high and lowboy.
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A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
- mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles1897, Katharine Lee Bates, American Literature:
- […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […]1929 June, Herbert Cescinsky, “American furniture problems”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, volume 54, number 315, page 313:
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- (US) National Gallery of Art During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. … The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.
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Dated One who enjoys the high life.
3
Dated A political highflier.