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A highboy is a tall wooden chest with many drawers, used for clothes. It often stands on legs, and older ones may come in two parts stacked together. This is American English. In British English the same kind of thing is usually a tallboy. Though actually, there is no boy in the room — it is just a furniture name. You meet it in furniture shops, antique shops, and American house descriptions, not in everyday chat. A shorter, wider chest in the same American pair is a lowboy.
高斗櫃(美式;英式多說 tallboy。台灣家具店較常說高衣櫃、五斗櫃)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
highboynoun
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A tall chest of drawers that is raised up on high legs.
- mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles
- […] the well-known Pennsylvania "Highboy," which is only the English "Tallboy" double-chest elevated on cabriole legs […]
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datedOne who enjoys the high life.
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datedA political highflier.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。