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hahybaw i

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

  • Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary .
  • The chief piece of furniture is a preposterously tall highboy, its drawers spilling out cloth and papers and ropes of pearls just as the characters are about to spill out secrets .
  • Before the Both Congress took over, she quipped, "we had a highboy governmentone bureau on top of another.

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