Welsh dresser

noun

, English Furniture.

1. a sideboard having drawers or compartments below and open, shallow shelves above.

Welsh dresser

noun

1. a sideboard with drawers and cupboards below and open shelves above

Word History and Origins

Origin of Welsh dresser¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In the cream-walled parlour, Welsh dolls shared an armchair, while a small Welsh dresser displayed blue and gold china and a bookcase containing Beatrix Potter books.

From BBC

A Welsh dresser bigger than my bedroom hid the deepest quarter from sight.

From Literature

She had equipped that with a dark oak Welsh dresser made very bright with a dessert service that was, in view of its extremely decorative quality, remarkably cheap, and with some very pretty silver-topped glass bottles and flasks.

From Project Gutenberg

Travelling in America has for me one disadvantage—the fact that one has to sleep, like a dish on a Welsh dresser, in the same compartment with about forty people, six of whom surely snore.

From Project Gutenberg

"Was there a kitchen disaster when somebody tipped the Welsh dresser over on top of themself, did it all go horribly wrong for them and did they get evicted – or did ET go off and leave NT so he didn't want the marriage bowl around as a reminder any longer?"

From The Guardian