English Explanatory Dictionary

Hadley chest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of traditional American chest with panels and drawers.

Word forms

Hadley chest Hadley chests

Etymology

Named after the town of Hadley, Massachusetts, wherein banker Henry Wood Erving coined the term.

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