clothes-press

noun

1. a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet

Example Sentences

He motioned to Azito, of whose presence Machado seemed to become aware for the first time, to stand behind a clothes-press near the camp-bed.

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Meantime, the ruffians returned to the house, and, strange to say, went directly to the clothes-press.

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A number of British soldiers surrounded his house, and on discovering them he hid himself in the clothes-press.

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Although Mrs. Downey could not remember when she was married or when her first child was born, she does remember the time it took her to dust the room where there was a clothes-press, a table and three or four chairs.

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A clothes-press filled the space between the chimney jamb and the wall, and the mat of corn husks and leaves on which the children had slept in the corner gave way to the comfortable luxuriance of a feather bed.

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