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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sideboard \Side"board`\, n. A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
At a stately sideboard, by the wine,
That fragrant smell diffused.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 English) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A sideboard, also called a buffet, is an item of furniture traditionally used in the dining room for serving food, for displaying serving dishes such as silver, and for storage. It usually consists of a set of cabinets, or cupboards, and one or more drawers, all topped by a flat display surface for conveniently holding food, serving dishes, or lighting devices. The overall height of the tops of most sideboards is approximately waist level. The words sideboard and buffet are somewhat interchangeable, but if the item has short legs, or a base that sits directly on the floor with no legs, it is more likely to be called a sideboard; if it has longer legs it is more likely to be called a buffet.
The earliest versions of the sideboard familiar today made their appearance in the 18th century, but they gained most of their popularity during the 19th century as households became prosperous enough to dedicate a room solely to dining. Sideboards were made in a range of decorative styles and were frequently ornamented with costly veneers and inlays. In later years, sideboards have been placed in living rooms or other areas where household items might be displayed.
In traditional formal dining rooms today, an antique sideboard is a desirable and fashionable accessory, and finely styled versions from the late-18th or early-19th centuries are the most sought-after and most costly. Among its counterparts in modern furniture styles, the form is often referred to as a server. Some of the earliest production of sideboards arose in England, France, Belgium and Scotland. Later, American designs arose. Characteristic materials used in historic sideboard manufacture include mahogany, oak, pine, and walnut.
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 next decade imported Japanese prints ( Ukiyo-e), ceramics and textiles were very fashionable in Britain. Godwin was influenced by interiors depicted in Japanese prints and by the studies he made of Japanese architecture, but he did not seek to imitate Japanese designs. Instead his Anglo-Japanese furniture aimed to combine the more general principles of simplicity and elegance he admired in the art of Japan with domestic needs of the Victorian home.
The sideboard is stylish and dramatic, but it is also quite appropriate for use in a dining room. It is functional with drawers, adjustable shelves, and a rack fitted to take a large dish between the cupboards. The construction and finish are practical and hygienic, with hard surfaces and simple decoration, and the raised bottom shelf gives access for cleaning the floor.
Godwin designed the first version of this sideboard in ebonised deal, a cheap wood, in 1867. He subsequently changed to ebonised mahogany, as he found deal to be unstable. At least ten versions of the original were made between 1867 and 1888, with differences in design, in decoration or in the number of legs. There are several surviving examples of this sideboard, made of ebonised deal, mahogany, or oak and pine. The original sideboard was designed by Godwin for the dining room of his London home in 1867.
A sideboard, side deck, or side is a set of cards in a collectible card game that are separate from a player's primary deck. It is used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
A sideboard is an item of furniture.
Sideboard may also refer to:
- Sideboard (Edward William Godwin), a sideboard designed by Edward William Godwin
- Sideboard (cards), a deck of cards in a collectible card game
- The Sideboard, a magazine about the Magic card game
- The Sideboard, a painting by Antonio López García
- " The Sideboard Song", a song by Chas & Dave
- Sideburns, a style of facial hair
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.