dresser

Etymology 1

From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.

noun

1. An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
   The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
2. An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.

noun

1. One who dresses in a particular way.
   He's a very snappy dresser.
2. (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
3. A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
   In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47
   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
4. (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
   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. 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section I
   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. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576
5. (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
   Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas. 2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan
6. A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
7. (dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
8. (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
9. One who dresses or prepares stone.
   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