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- noun Plural form of
sideboard .
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Examples
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A prevailing fashion for wedding presents is to give heavy pieces of furniture, such as sideboards, writing-tables, cabinets, and pianos.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Larger pieces, such as sideboards, are $400 to $650.
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Larger pieces, such as sideboards, are $400 to $650.
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Harvey's is home to what is probably the best known Sherry in the world: Harvey's Bristol Cream, a sweet Sherry launched over 100 years ago and still regularly found on the sideboards of dining rooms and shelves of most bars.
Sherry's Long, Rich Past and Uncertain Present Lettie Teague 2011
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The floor of the State dining-room, while not showing settlement, was so insufficiently supported as to cause the dishes on the sideboards to rattle when the waiters were serving, and the plastering below was badly cracked from excessive vibration.
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We found out that the carvings and models on the sideboards reunite a variety of artistic styles and the materials used are also diverse.
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The prisoners of war have made these beds themselves as well as some handsome sideboards, cupboards, tables and easy chairs.
Work Camp 11033 GW 2010
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These houses were fully furnished, albeit – according to an old family joke – by the department of giants and dwarves tiny little armchairs paired with monumental sideboards.
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Two years ago, the duo opened Jimmie Martin ( www.jimmiemartin.com ) on London's Kensington Church Street, where they sell everything from gold- and graffiti-infused sideboards (£3,300) and tagged chairs (from £16,000) to wallpaper with the words "Imperfection" sprayed across (from £900).
The Writing Is on the Wall Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011
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In the end though, I decided to go with the 5.1 surround installation—I'll just think of the sideboards that will have to be replaced as a sonic bliss tax.
Is 2 Greater Than 5.1? Joshua Fruhlinger 2011
johnmperry commented on the word sideboards
same as sideburns
June 30, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word sideboards
Dylan Thomas, in "Old Garbo," in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, writes: "Most of the boys were there already. Some wore the outlines of moustaches, others had sideboards and crimped hair, some smoked curved pipes and talked with them gripped between their teeth, there were pin-stripe trousers and hard collars, one daring bowler." (p 89 of the New Directions Paperbook edition)
December 9, 2008