Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of furniture, such as a cabinet or a bookcase, with a central section that projects beyond the sections to either side.
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Examples
“For 19-odd years, it had never occurred to me to question why the hell we were calling a breakfront a bilgray.”
“The decorative tins piled higher and higher on our breakfront as the days of advent wore on.”
The Huffington Post: Christina Pirello: Discovering the Christmas Spirit
“The candy drawer was the upper right drawer of a wooden breakfront, located in a study off the living room.”
“Among them: an autographed photo of golfer Arnold Palmer, oil paintings, Limoges porcelain dishes, Baccarat crystal stemware, light fixtures, fur coats, a custom-made breakfront cabinet, brass platters and Southwestern pottery.”
The Wall Street Journal: Turning Others' Junk Into Treasure for Local Charities
“Wagner's 1890 mahogany collector's cabinet combines the profile of an 18th-century breakfront with inset panels of Japanese cloisonné that evoke 1880s English Aestheticism.”
“He then deliberately concealed them under a silver Kiddush cup in the breakfront.”
“In case you do not know a finial is: a decorative, terminal part at the tip of a spire, gable, lamp shade support, etc., or projecting upward from the top of a cabinet, breakfront, etc. Thanks, shoe”
“The Whalens had an immaculate, never-used dining room, its breakfront filled with perfectly nested china and crystal wineglasses lined up like cadets.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
“It guides you, like a legality, like your own breathing, in and out of overtone, hardcore hodgepodges, those inklings near sacrosanct beyond breakfront negligees and neo-negligence leading the good life.”
“She moved with surprisingly small, quick steps through the living room, through two sets of open double doors that enclosed a small formal dining room, and on into the kitchen—much farther than Olivia had gotten all last week, and so quickly that Olivia barely had time to notice anything about the dining room besides a heavy mahogany table and matching breakfront.”
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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Cormac McCarthy - The Road
stoven, bollard, travois, bindle, gimballed, excelsior, amidships, tidewrack, bracken, transom, harrowtrough, envacuuming and 34 more...
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