sideboard
sideboard Lexical Profile
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• noun
A long, low piece of dining room furniture equipped with drawers and cupboards for storing dishes, glassware, and table linens, with a flat top surface used for serving food.
"She arranged the silver platters and crystal decanters neatly on the antique mahogany sideboard before the dinner guests arrived."
A removable wooden board or panel attached to the side of a wagon, truck, or bed to increase its height or prevent the contents from falling out.
"The farmer bolted extra sideboards onto the flatbed trailer so it could haul a larger load of harvested grain."
One of the boundary walls enclosing a playing area, such as in ice hockey or indoor soccer, or a reserve set of cards kept separate from a main deck in collectible card games.
"Between matches in the tournament, the player swapped three defensive cards from his sideboard into his main deck."
British A strip of facial hair grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (usually used in the plural).
"In the nineteenth-century portrait, the gentleman sported thick, bushy sideboards that reached all the way to his jawline."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Dating back to the 14th century, the word combines Middle English 'side' and 'bord' (meaning table), originally referring to a secondary table placed along the side wall of a medieval dining hall for serving food.