Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small drawer in the upper part of a dressing-table, for holding jewels.
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Examples
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Maud had her tiny card-case, and paid calls, "like mamma and Fan"; her box of dainty gloves, her jewel-drawer, her crimping-pins, as fine and fanciful a wardrobe as a Paris doll, and a French maid to dress her.
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The other was usually kept in a jewel-drawer of the dressing-table.
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He pulled out the jewel-drawer in the dressing-table.
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Gwen made an inquiry, and, directed by Mrs. Stanley, produced a portrait from its hiding-place in the jewel-drawer under the mirror.
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Maud had her tiny card-case, and paid calls, "like mamma and Fan"; her box of dainty gloves, her jewel-drawer, her crimping-pins, as fine and fanciful a wardrobe as a Paris doll, and a French maid to dress her.
An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870
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Maud had her tiny card-case, and paid calls, "like mamma and Fan"; her box of dainty gloves, her jewel-drawer, her crimping-pins, as fine and fanciful a wardrobe as a Paris doll, and a French maid to dress her.
An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860
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