dressing table

Example Sentences

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Boyce shared a bedroom with her sister, Mamie, that was decorated by their mother with red-robin wallpaper and a small dressing table.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

Sarah Griffin's bedroom at her home in Belfast is like that of most 12-year-old girls - a dressing table littered with make-up, perfume bottles and hair straighteners, with some childhood cuddly toys on the bed.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2023

“I did the calculations sitting at my wife’s dressing table because I didn’t have a desk or an office.”

From Scientific American • May 20, 2022

“At one point, we had every gurney, every dressing table, every embalming table had somebody on it,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2021

Then she went to her dressing table and combed her hair, rubbed a little rouge all over her face, covered it lightly with powder, and put on the pale lipstick she always used.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck