breakfront

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

Noun

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

Origin

From break + front.

Forms

breakfronts