breakfront

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In the 71 years since, Wilder's drama has become a permanent yet often dormant fixture in our culture, like the breakfront that's been in the dining room so long you stopped noticing its contents.

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  1. noun 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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  • The line of neighbors waiting to offer their condolences to Mary and Richard Walco starts in the dining room in front of the breakfront, snakes along three living room walls, then runs past the front door and most of the way down the bedroom hallway. —  Beach Road
  • Dante went to the breakfront, took out a bottle of brandy and poured an inch into a snifter. —  TheSicilian’sChristmasBride
  • Before he'd leave for work, he'd lock them up in a tin box; then first thing in the morning he'd get them out again How about taking a look at what's in that box Esther went to a large cabinet in the dining room, the kind some people called a breakfront. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002
  • Or trying to come to an agreement about who's getting Mom's diamond ring and solid mahogany breakfront after Mom dies? —  Cafferty File
  • Besides the chandelier and paintings, the expenditures approved on Jan. 5 included a walnut breakfront valued at $26,500 and another chandelier, valued at $22,500. —  chron.com Chronicle
 

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