What is "breakfront"

Usage examples of "breakfront".

The upper doors of the breakfront were lined, where one would expect glass, with a pleated yellowed fabric.

The lower part of the breakfront held three rows of drawers and the drawers I could pull open also contained nothing but the same browned paper.

When he left I turned and walked through the kitchen to the dining room and the massive breakfront with the one drawer locked.

I reached for my wallet, took out the key that had opened the breakfront drawer at the Poole house, and handed it over.

Eventually she thought to fit the key into the locked breakfront drawer at the Poole house, where she found the letters.

He walked over to the breakfront and picked up one of the books, hefting its weight in his hand.

The milk-glass shades of the old kerosene lamps, increasingly valuable as antiques, tremble, like the panes in the breakfront back on Joseph street.

Stuhl glides a step forward, into the circle of space cleared by the breakfront, maybe she was a great dancer fifty years ago, a certain type of old lady keeps her ankles and her feet small, and she is one.

Because there are five of them now they have had to dip into the good china Mom-mom keeps in the breakfront and the dish Pru dropped was a good one.

Mama was making a grab for the edge of the dining room table coasting toward her, but he could see behind her, see the huge breakfront Daddy had bought her for an anniversary gift slowly toppling away from the wall.

Through my childhood, they had been on display in a breakfront at Tealing, hardly ever used.

Apart from the ancient bevelled glass of a splendid breakfront bookcase which stood along one wall, everything major looked restorable, though getting rid of the dust would be a problem in itself.

Frustrated, Vivien went to a massive breakfront wardrobe, fitted with huge pieces of silvered glass and flanked with cabinets of linen trays on either side.

I looked carefully around the room, frowned at the old-fashioned breakfront with glass-doored shelves loaded with bundled papers, stepped back a pace to peer behind the rubber plant.

The breakfront lay across the counter, its papers spilled among broken glass.