[
US
/ˈhaɪˌbɔɪ/
]
NOUN
- a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs
How To Use highboy In A Sentence
- On a highboy in the corner of the dining room rests a handsome, black-and-white portrait of Jean, then a stunner in her early 20s, and James, clad in his Army uniform. Jean Stevens, Wyalusing Widow, Lived With Corpses Of Husband And Twin Sister, Say Police
- She peeked inside the trunk first, but it was empty. Ditto the highboys. The wardrobe, though was half-full of what appeared to be very, very old winter coats.
- For instance, the undersides of the bottom drawers of a highboy will be darker than those of the upper drawers.
- Marge helped serve coffee and triple-layer cake from the old highboy, as the scent of roses drifted through the open windows.
- Sotheby's A 1756 highboy by John Townsend, set for auction by Sotheby's. A Colonial Chest Full of Surprises
- Whatever the game, it all starts withfront; you've got to lookgood: the players wore gators and sharp sharkskin suits, or leather jackets and ban-lons, pimped highboy shirts with the wrap-around cufflinks, and thick-and-thin socks in all weather. Stevie Wonder
- At the same time, in nearby Philadelphia, dishonest cabinetmakers were making elaborately carved scrolled top highboys and chests-on-chests from plain flat top ones.
- At the same time, in nearby Philadelphia, dishonest cabinetmakers were making elaborately carved scrolled top highboys and chests-on-chests from plain flat top ones.
- Anyways, comment away please - We are thinking of getting the "highboy" style and the 3 drawer style .... and of course they don't come in coordinating colours so we are thinking of getting one black and the other white (please comment if you think that's crazy too!) Apartment Therapy Main
- Sotheby's chest of drawers, or highboy, has spent the past 255 years with the New England heirs of Lt. Col. A Colonial Chest Full of Surprises