Dresser
Encyclopedia
Things
- Dresser (theatre), theatrical stagehand involved with costumes
- Window dresserWindow dresserWindow dressers arrange displays of goods in shop windows or within a shop itself. They may work for design companies contracted to work for clients or for department stores, independent retailers, airport or hotel shops....
, shop display designer - Dresser IndustriesDresser IndustriesDresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources...
, multinational corporation based in Dallas, Texas - Grinding dresserGrinding dresserA grinding dresser or wheel dresser is a tool to dress the surface of a grinding wheel. Grinding dressers are used for making different profile on grinding wheel. The dressing of a wheel in order to return the wheel to its original shape...
, to dress the surface of a grinding wheel - The DresserThe DresserThe Dresser is a 1983 film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together. It is based on a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, in turn based on his successful 1980 West End and Broadway play of the same name.The film was directed by Peter...
, a play and film by Ronald Harwood - Dresser (cocktail), any cocktail consumed while getting dressed to go out for the evening
Furniture
- Dressing table a lowboy or other chest of drawers in a bedroom
- Welsh dresserWelsh dresserA Welsh dresser or a china hutch and sometimes known as a kitchen dresser or pewter cupboard, is a piece of wooden furniture consisting of drawers and cupboards in the lower part, and shelves on top...
a dresser used to store and display crockery, silverware and pewter-ware in a kitchen, scullery or dining room. - A dresser, an alternative name a dressing table or for a chest of drawersChest of drawersA chest of drawers, also called a dresser or a bureau, is a piece of furniture that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers stacked one above another...
in a bedroom, and a shortened term for a Welsh dresser
Places
- Dresser, CaliforniaDresser, CaliforniaDresser is an unincorporated community in Alameda County, California. Its ZIP code is 94536 and its area code is 510.- Geography and background :...
, community in Alameda County - Dresser, WisconsinDresser, WisconsinDresser is a village in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 732 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dresser is located at ....
, small town in Polk County, Wisconsin
People
- Henry Eeles DresserHenry Eeles DresserHenry Eeles Dresser was an English businessman and ornithologist.Henry Dresser was born in Thirsk where his father was the manager of the bank which had been set up by his grandfather...
(1838–1915), English ornithologist - Mark DresserMark DresserMark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
- Paul DresserPaul DresserJohann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
- Christopher DresserChristopher DresserChristopher Dresser was an English designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important, independent, designers and was a pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement, and a major contributor to the allied Anglo-Japanese branch of the Movement; both originated in...
- Richard DresserRichard DresserRichard Dresser is a popular American playwright whose work has been widely performed in theatres across the United States, as well as in Europe. In addition to his plays, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Good Vibrations and the musical Johnny Baseball...
- Tom DresserTom DresserTom Dresser VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....