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sideboard|ˈsaɪdbɔəd|
[side n.1]
1. a. A table (esp. for taking meals at) placed towards the side of a room, hall, etc.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1398 Þenne was alle þe halle flor hiled with knyȝtes, & barounes at þe side-bordes bounet ay⁓where. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 36 Pacience and I were put to be macches, And seten by owre selue at a syde-borde. 1470–85Malory Arth. vii. v. 220 The knyght..took hym vp and sette hym at a syde bord, and sette hym self afore hym. 1531Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 26 The side borde in the haull with the tristillis sett in the ground. 1575Gascoigne Flowers Wks. (1587) 40 Side Boords be laid aside, the tables end is gone. 1616Middleton Civitatis Amor Wks. 1885 VII. 288 They..dined that day in his [the Prince's] presence, at a sideboard. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2533/3 A Table raised 3 Steps under a Canopy for the Emperor and King, at each end of which was a Side-board. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 348 The rich banquet in the dome prepar'd, (An humble side-board set) Ulysses shar'd.
b. A piece of dining-room furniture for holding side-dishes, wine, plate, etc., and often having cupboards and drawers.
1671Milton P.R. ii. 350 At a stately side-board by the wine..in order stood Tall stripling youths rich clad. 1693Congreve in Dryden Juvenal xi. (1697) 288 No Side-boards then, with gilded Plate were dress'd. 1710Tatler No. 205 ⁋1 The sumptuous Sideboard to an ingenuous Eye has often more the Air of an Altar than a Table. 1791Boswell Johnson 13 April 1781, It would not be amiss to have some cold meat, and a bottle of wine upon a side⁓board. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 198 An immense unwieldy side-board, garnished with a few wine-glasses of a deep blue colour. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 4 The butler..had been carving at the side-board during the conversation.
c. The contents of a sideboard. rare—1.
1782F. Burney Cecilia vi. x, ‘I would as soon,’ answered Cecilia, ‘take with me the side-board of plate.’
d. attrib., as sideboard cloth, sideboard ornament, † sideboard table.
1679Hist. of Jetzer Pref. A b, They saw him every day..Dine at a Side-board Table by himself. c1716in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics of 1715 (1889) 105 Sideboard cloaths 6. 1785Cowper Let. to J. Newton 19 Mar., The sideboard-table..was equally unfit for my purpose. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 42 Montague mentions the sideboard-man of Cardinal Caraffi. 1865Ruskin Sesame ii. §80 You bring up your girls as if they were meant for sideboard ornaments.
2. a. A board forming the side, or a part of the side, of any structure.
1611Cotgr., Tessons d'un pressouër, the side-boords of a presse. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 175 The grander canoes..are ornamented with open work..; the side-boards..are embellished with tufts of white feathers. 1852Seidel Organ 130 The side-board of a groove may be cracked. 1861–2Ulster Jrnl. Arch. IX. 145 On the wheel-cars or carts were subsequently put ‘side-boards’, to rest the feet on. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2173/1 Sideboard,..a vertical board at the side of a work-bench,..for supporting one end of a piece of work.
b. An additional and removable board placed on the side of a cart or wagon to increase its carrying capacity.
1832Stamford Mercury 27 Jan. 2/5, 2 narrow wheeled waggons..with raves and sideboards. 1833Ridgemont Farm Rep. 131 in Husb. (L.U.K.) III, The waggons..are well formed, with side-boards fixed on the top of the body. 1867–in Eng. Dial. Dict.
3. slang. in pl.
a. A stand-up collar.
1857Slang Dict. 18. 1874 ‘Uncle Bob’ Lett. to Children (1875) xiv. 87 Starting with our standing collars on, we managed to get to the church... Some mischievous boy would cry out, ‘Come out of those sideboards.’
b. Side-whiskers (Cent. Dict. 1891).
1907Daily Chron. 7 Dec. 5/7 You have described the duke as having small whiskers?—Yes, they were sideboards. Where did you get that name?—I have been in America... You call them sideboards?—Yes, or sideburns. 1956D. M. Davin Sullen Bell ii. iv. 136 He was a miserable little sod, with sideboards and an American tie. 1961H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary i. 9 The boys are dressed in the Teddy style, with tight trousers and sideboards. 1975M. Bradbury History Man vi. 97 He takes his razor..clipping at the line of the sideboards. |