Definitions for tallboy
ˈtɔlˌbɔɪtall·boy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. highboy, tallboynoun

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

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1. tallboynoun

   A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.

2. tallboynoun

   A tall can of beer, either 16 ounces or one half litre.

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1. tallboy

   A tallboy is a piece of furniture, also known as a chest-on-chest, that features a chest of drawers in the lower part with a wardrobe or smaller chest on top. Generally, it is much taller than it is wide, hence the name. In modern usage, 'Tallboy' can also refer to a large size of beer or cider container similar in volume to a wine bottle, typically 22 ounces (650 ml).

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1. Tallboy

   A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a double chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. A highboy is similar but consists of both upper and lower having drawers, many of which may not be doubled, and some of which were tripled. A lowboy, is a table-height set of drawers designed to hold a clothes chest, which had been the predominant place one stored clothes for many centuries. Whereas the chest of drawers in its familiar form contains three long and two short drawers, the tallboy has five, six, or seven long drawers, and two short ones. It is a very late 17th-century development of the smaller chest. The early examples are walnut, but by far the largest portion of the many that have survived are mahogany, this being the wood most frequently employed in the 18th century for the construction of furniture, especially the more massive pieces. Occasionally the walnut at the beginning of the vogue was inlaid, just as satinwood varieties were inlaid, depending for relief upon carved cornice-mouldings or gardrooning, and upon handsome brass handles and escutcheons. The tallboy was the wardrobe of the 18th century, but it eventually gave place to the modern type of wardrobe, which, with its sliding doors, was speedily found to be not only capacious as its predecessor but more convenient of access. The topmost drawers of the tallboy could only be reached by the use of bed steps, and the disappearance of high beds and the consequent disuse of steps exercised a certain influence in displacing a characteristic piece of furniture which was popular for at least a century. This is in contrast to a lower piece of furniture called a lowboy.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tallboy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tallboy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tallboy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tallboy
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tallboy