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In my home, a sideboard was a small table with extra cutlery, condiments, and room to set down
large dishes brought in from kitchen. Sometimes canapés and later desserts might be placed there.
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your sideboard is my credenza! do you use a sieve or colendar to drain your spaghetti?
My mother always used the "continental" term, so that is what i use.
well actually i don't own a credenza, i use a folding tea trolly! a small rolling cart to hold dishes and cakes!
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My notion of sideboard comes from the one in my parents' home: it is far taller and narrower than a table. It is taller than yer average human bean, in fact. We use the top for storing board games; there are two cupboards, one at either end, and one holds tankards (beer mugs) and t'other holds booze (but is not a tantalus - though there is a lock, I don't remember it ever being used! and there's no glass in the door); there is a small cavity above either cupboard, and shelves between cupboards and cavities, and these, in our family, have traditionally held knick-knacks and books. On a level with the bottom of the cupboards and the bottom shelf, is a narrow, protruding shelf, probably not even a foot deep - probably the place serving dishes with food in were usually set, but again, in my family, used for knick-knacks and books. Beneath this there are three drawers; we use these for silverware and other cutlery, and placemats and tablecloths. Beneath the drawers, the legs of the sideboard go down to the ground and enclose a kind of "nothing" space, which I used to enjoy crawling in and making hidey-holes of (with blankets stuck in the drawers so they hung down in a concealing manner!) when I was little. Now we keep things like a box of video tapes, a magazine rack, and Mum's sewing machine, under there. The sideboard actually has six legs, I think I'm remembering correctly - and a railing running around the bottom, touching each leg. It is a monster of a piece of furniture, that's fer shure.
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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chifforobe= what we'd call a wardrobe.
The only time I've ever seen/heard the word chiffarobe was in To Kill a Mockingbird book and movie. I've never heard it elsewhere.
Sideboard is a word completely unknown to me. Your description is pretty complete so I can say that I've never seen anything like it either.
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Have been meaning to add to this for some time....Quoting (with permission) from a PM:
A sideboard was a specialized piece of furniture that people kept for the start of a hunt. It would be carried outside and piled high with food for the riders to eat from while on horseback. Sometimes they remained on a porch rather than being carried all the way into and out of the house.
It had long skinny legs which would be minimally affected by the urine and horse manure dropped helter skelter by the mounts.
Apparently it was also called a "hunt board."
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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Have you ever heard this term?
If any of you are ever in the Richmond, Virginia, USA, area, do not miss seeking out Maymont, a hundred-acre estate bequeathed to the city of Richmond by Sallie May and James Branch Dooley.
Anyway, on the grounds of Maymont there is the Dooley house, and in the dining room is the largest breakfront I've ever seen in my life of limited travels. It is a monstrous cabinet for china, something of such mythic proportions, one feels like a very small child in trying to take it in.
(The house also has a swan bed--yes, a bed that has been fashioned from tulip poplar to look like an enormous swan--and a dressing table made from silver and narwhale tusks.)
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