highboy

Etymology

See high and lowboy.

noun

  1. A tall chest of drawers raised up on high legs.
    mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles 1897, Katharine Lee Bates, American Literature
    […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […] 1929 June, Herbert Cescinsky, “American furniture problems”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, volume 54, number 315, page 313
    (US) National Gallery of Art During the Queen Anne period in America, the highboy attained its characteristic form. … The cabriole leg was a distinctive feature developed in the Queen Anne period; its shape repeats the S-curve that dominated all Queen Anne design.
  2. (dated) One who enjoys the high life.
  3. (dated) A political highflier.

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