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DRAWERS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used in the plural) underpants worn by women

Example:

she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing

Synonyms:

bloomers; drawers; knickers; pants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drawers" is a kind of...):

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Underpants worn by men

Synonyms:

boxers; boxershorts; drawers; shorts; underdrawers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drawers" is a kind of...):

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

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 Context examples: 

Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Well read in the art of concealing a treasure, the possibility of false linings to the drawers did not escape her, and she felt round each with anxious acuteness in vain.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Amy's chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then our driver, whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of the box-seat—gotza they call them—cracked his big whip over his four small horses, which ran abreast, and we set off on our journey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning; and the kindness had perfectly answered.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I knew where to find in my drawers some linen, a locket, a ring.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But nothing sensational was discovered among the documents which filled his drawers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We began the search at once; Mr. Jorkins unlocking the drawers and desks, and we all taking out the papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)