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tallboy

tall·boy

uncommon us

noun

1.

a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs

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Origin

By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).

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