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 Dress your Jacket (or hide).Drink. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dresser.
 
A kitchen dresser, the French dressoir, a sideboard, verb dresser, to raise, set up.
       
“The pewter plates on the dresser.”
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Longfellow: Evangeline, i. 2.
 


 Dress your Jacket (or hide).Drink. 

 
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