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English
Noun
dressing-table (plural dressing-tables)
- Dated form of dressing table.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 52:On the one side was a stand of moss roses, on the other a dressing-table, and a glass à la Psyche, over whose surface the wax tapers flung a soft light, worthy of any complexion, even had it rivalled the caliph Vathek’s pages, whose skins “were fair as the enamel of Frangistan.”
1920, John Galsworthy, “Soames Entertains the Future”, in In Chancery, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, pages 87–88:Going up to the dressing-table he passed his hand over the lilac-coloured pincushion, into which were stuck all kinds of pins; a bowl of pot-pourri exhaled a scent that made his head turn just a little.
1989, Pauline Hunt, “Gender and the Construction of Home Life”, in Graham Allan, Graham Crow, editors, Home and Family: Creating the Domestic Sphere, Basingstoke, Hants, London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:Now that the days of handbag-carrying women have largely drawn to a close, houseworkers rarely have a clearly marked-out personal territory – although for some the dressing-table may be a non-transportable handbag equivalent.