breakfront
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English
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]breakfront (plural breakfronts)
- (chiefly attributive) Any piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- Quickly, she began to tear off slips of pink paper and tape them to things — the refrigerator, the stove, the telephone which hung on the kitchen wall by the garage doorway, the breakfront in the dining room.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- He stopped and took proper note, as possibly no one else ever had, of the Waterford goblets and candy dishes that Enid kept on display in the breakfront.