breakfront

plural breakfronts

1. attributiveAny piece of furniture (especially a bookcase or cabinet) that has a central section that projects farther forward than the other sections.

   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.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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   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.

   1991, Stephen King, Needful Things