dresser
English
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
Noun
dresser (plural dressers)
- An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie:
- The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
- An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English dresser, dressour, equivalent to dress + -er.
Noun
dresser (plural dressers)
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- He's a very snappy dresser.
- A wardrobe assistant in a theatre (who helps actors put on their costume).
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings (page 107)
- The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.
- 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings (page 107)
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:
- On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
- Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, I:
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling (page 7)
- At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
- 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling (page 7)
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French
Etymology
From Old French drecer, drecier, from Vulgar Latin *dīrectio (through a contracted form *drectio), from Latin dīrectus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct. Compare Italian drizzare, Spanish aderezar, Norman dréchi, Friulian dreçâ.
Pronunciation
Verb
dresser
- (transitive) to erect, put up
- (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
- (transitive) to lift, raise
- (transitive) to set, lay out
- Est-ce qu'il a dressé la table? Has he laid the table?
- (transitive) to tame (lion etc), break in (horse), to train (an animal)
- (reflexive) to stand
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | dresser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dressant /dʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /dʁe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | dressé /dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dresse /dʁɛs/ |
dresses /dʁɛs/ |
dresse /dʁɛs/ |
dressons /dʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sɔ̃/ |
dressez /dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ |
dressent /dʁɛs/ |
imperfect | dressais /dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ |
dressais /dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ |
dressait /dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ |
dressions /dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
dressiez /dʁɛ.sje/ or /dʁe.sje/ |
dressaient /dʁɛ.sɛ/ or /dʁe.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dressai /dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ |
dressas /dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ |
dressa /dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ |
dressâmes /dʁɛ.sam/ or /dʁe.sam/ |
dressâtes /dʁɛ.sat/ or /dʁe.sat/ |
dressèrent /dʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /dʁe.sɛʁ/ | |
future | dresserai /dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /dʁe.sʁe/ |
dresseras /dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /dʁe.sʁa/ |
dressera /dʁɛ.sʁa/ or /dʁe.sʁa/ |
dresserons /dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sʁɔ̃/ |
dresserez /dʁɛ.sʁe/ or /dʁe.sʁe/ |
dresseront /dʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | dresserais /dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ |
dresserais /dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ |
dresserait /dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ |
dresserions /dʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dresseriez /dʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /dʁe.sə.ʁje/ |
dresseraient /dʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /dʁe.sʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dresse /dʁɛs/ |
dresses /dʁɛs/ |
dresse /dʁɛs/ |
dressions /dʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sjɔ̃/ |
dressiez /dʁɛ.sje/ or /dʁe.sje/ |
dressent /dʁɛs/ |
imperfect2 | dressasse /dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/ |
dressasses /dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/ |
dressât /dʁɛ.sa/ or /dʁe.sa/ |
dressassions /dʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
dressassiez /dʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /dʁe.sa.sje/ |
dressassent /dʁɛ.sas/ or /dʁe.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | dresse /dʁɛs/ |
— | dressons /dʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /dʁe.sɔ̃/ |
dressez /dʁɛ.se/ or /dʁe.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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Further reading
- “dresser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
dresser m
Verb
dresser
Old French
Verb
dresser
- Alternative form of drecier
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | dresser | avoir dressé | |||||
gerund | en dressant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | dressant | ||||||
past participle | dressé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | dres | dresses | dresse | dressons | dressez | dressent |
imperfect | dressoie, dresseie, dressoe, dresseve | dressoies, dresseies, dressoes, dresseves | dressoit, dresseit, dressot, dresseve | dressiiens, dressiens | dressiiez, dressiez | dressoient, dresseient, dressoent, dressevent | |
preterite | dressai | dressas | dressa | dressames | dressastes | dresserent | |
future | dresserai | dresseras | dressera | dresserons | dresseroiz, dressereiz, dresserez | dresseront | |
conditional | dresseroie, dressereie | dresseroies, dressereies | dresseroit, dressereit | dresseriiens, dresseriens | dresseriiez, dresseriez | dresseroient, dressereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | dres | dres | drest | dressons | dressez | dressent |
imperfect | dressasse | dressasses | dressast | dressissons, dressissiens | dressissoiz, dressissez, dressissiez | dressassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | dresse | — | dressons | dressez | — |
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