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.)