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A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room
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sideboard
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet , counter ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food 2 a board that forms part of the side of something 3 (context in the plural chiefly British English) sideburns 4 (cx collectible card games ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
This sideboard was designed by Edward William Godwin (1833–86), who was one of the most important exponents of Victorian Japonisme , the appreciation and appropriation of Japanese artistic styles. Japan began trading with the West in the 1850s, and by the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"table placed near the side of a room or hall" (especially one where food is served), c.1300, from side (adj.) + board (n.1).
Usage examples of sideboard.
Then the gas is turned on, with supernumerary argand lamps and manifold waxlights, to illuminate countless cakes, of all prices and dimensions, that stand in rows and piles on the counters and sideboards, and in the windows.
Nicholas went to the sideboard, Aurora absently toyed with the overlarge ring on her finger.
Inch by inch the bloody bungee cord started to slide rearward, toward the open slotted end of the sideboard.
She pushed through the brass-decorated double doors and entered a sitting room with sofas, coffe table, television and a sideboard containing herbal teas, decaffeinated coffe and a frosty pitcher of ic water filled with lemon slics.
Several cushionless armchairs, such as were used in bar-rooms, two tables, a sideboard, half bar and half cupboard, and a rocking-chair comprised the furniture, and a few bear and buffalo skins covered the floor.
Across from the piano stood the sideboard, black with cut-glass sliding panels, enchased in black eggs-and-anchors.
Also, the Khakhan, as usual in this season, had two or three brace of white gerfalcons riding on the sideboards of his carriage, and the whole procession would have to halt whenever we started some game that he wished to fly the falcons at.
The wagon is loaded with ceramic crocks of the kind used to hold rapeseed oil, all roped fast to the sideboards.
Nick punched a button and glanced at his television on a sideboard, MTV featuring rappers at the moment.
He slouched back again in his chair, relapsing for several minutes into brooding silence, while Marston found an excuse for lingering in carefully aligning the several pieces of plate set out on the sideboard.
Tristan could not see his face as he answered and set his brandy snifter on the sideboard.
A bottle of Luna Spumante was sweating in a bucket on the sideboard, with only two glasses beside it.
Ulrich, in turn, recovered his senses, but as he felt faint with terror, he went and got a bottle of brandy out of the sideboard, and he drank off several glasses, one after anther, at a gulp.
Lo Manto walked into the room, wood floors shiny and waxed, sideboard lights on dim, the bar long and polished.
The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons, that always followed the march of a Gothic army.