Dressing Table

  

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Dressing Table

Definition: Dressing Table

Dressing Table

Noun

1. Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dressing Table

Synonyms: dresser (n), toilet table (n), vanity (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dressing Table

English words defined with "dressing table": toilet table. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dressing table": boudoir lamp. (references)
Etymologies containing "dressing table": Cookery. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dressing Table

DomainUsage

Screenplays

No, but the dressing table twitched a few times. (The Beiderbecke Affair; writing credit: Alan Plater)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Dressing Table

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Dressing Table

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Dressing Table

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Child of agricultural day laborer in front of dressing table in shack. Near Vian, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. W.H. Wright, residence in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Bedroom dressing table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lockwood Village, Roselle, New Jersey. Three and one half room apartment, dressing table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Allied Stores, Jordan Marsh, business in Boston, Massachusetts. Dressing table II. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Kiernan, residence in Stuart, Florida. Dressing table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Furniture and other home furnishings. Dressing table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dressing Table

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dressing table

127

dressing table vanity

30

antique dressing table

20

boudoir dressing table

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dressing Table

Language Translations for "dressing table"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tryezë tualeti, komodinë me pasqyrë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منضدة الزينة, ‏المزينة (dresser). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тоалетна масичка (dresser, vanity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

toaletní stolek. (various references)

   

Danish

  

toiletbord (dresser). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kaptafel (dresser). (various references)

   

French

  

coiffeuse (dresser). (various references)

   

German

  

toilettentisch (toilet table), Frisiertisch (vanity). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τουαλέτα (lavatory, loo, toilet, toilette). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שולחן אפור. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

öltözködõasztal (dresser). (various references)

   

Italian

  

toletta con specchiora (dresser), toletta. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

化粧台 (dresser). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

けしょう い (cosmetics expense, dresser, lady's pin money). (various references)

   

Manx

  

boayrd scaane. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

essingdray abletay

   

Portuguese

  

toucador (powder room, toilet), penteadeira (comber). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

masã de toaletã (dresser, toilet table). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

туалетный столик (dressing-table). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

toaletni stočić. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tocador (boudoir). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

toalettbord (dresser). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tuvalet masası (dresser, toilet table), makyaj masası (vanity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dressing Table

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-s-s-t"

-2 letters: detasseling, generalists.

-3 letters: anglesites, banistered, baseliners, besteading, bleariness, breadlines, bridgeless, denigrates, designates, desirables, gaberdines, generalist, gesneriads, inselbergs, integrable, reassigned, stingarees, tailenders.

-4 letters: absenters, absterged, absterges, agentries, alertness, algerines, andesites, angerless, anglesite, arbelests, arsenides, arsenites, asserting, astringed, astringes, banisters, baseliner, baselines, basseting, beardless, beastings, beastlier, beestings, begirdles, bestrides, bilanders, blastings, bleariest, bleedings, blindages, blistered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dressing Table


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 65 73 73 69 6E 67      54 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#84 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006E 0067      0054 0061 0062 006C 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388471858575807325467687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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