User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- A low chest of drawers.
See also
Extensive Definition
A lowboy is a small table
with one or two rows of drawers, so called in
contradistinction to the tallboy
or highboy chest of drawers. Both were favourite pieces of the
18th
century, both in England and in the
United
States; the lowboy was most frequently used as a dressing-table,
but sometimes as a side-table. It
is usually made of oak,
walnut or mahogany, with the drawerfronts
mounted with brass pulls and escutcheons. The more elegant examples
in the
Queen Anne, early
Georgian, and Chippendale
styles often have cabriole legs, carved knees, and slipper or
claw-and-ball feet. The fronts of some examples also are sculpted
with the scallop-shell motif beneath the centre drawer.
See also
- Dresser (Chest of drawers)
- Lowboy (trailer) - a trailer that has two drops in the deck to get low to the ground
References
- Globe Trailers Lowboy trailer manufacturer
lowboy in Spanish: Cómoda
lowboy in French: Commode (meuble)
lowboy in Japanese: 箪笥