sideboardn.
/ˈsʌɪdbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌbɔrd/ 1. † a. A dining table placed at the side of a room or to the side of the main or high table, typically for those of a lower status. Obsolete.† c. In extended use: a set of (typically silver) tableware displayed on a sideboard; a silver service. Cf. cupboard n. 1b. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table > side table
sideboarda1383
side table1397
by-table1550
livery table1577
by-board1637
sideboard table1679
a1383 Hostillar's Roll, Durham Sidbords & ij mapp. pro les copbord'.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 36 (MED) Pacience and I were put to be macches And seten by owre selue at a syde-borde.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 301 The knyght..toke hym up and sette hym at a sydebourde and sate hymself before hym.
1531 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 26 The side borde in the haull with the tristillis sett in the ground.
1575 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 40 Side Boords be laid aside, the tables end is gone.
1616 T. Middleton Civitatis Amor sig. C3v They..dined that day in his [sc. the Prince's] presence at a side Boord.
1690 London 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.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 348 The rich banquet in the dome prepar'd, (An humble side-board set) Ulysses shar'd.
1740 C. Davies Life & Adventures ii. 97 If you want a Dinner, stay till I have done or get to the Side-board.
b. Originally: a side table used to hold food and drink ready for being served at table. Later usually: a side table or other piece of dining-room furniture used for storing and displaying tableware; (chiefly) spec. a piece of furniture placed against the wall, with cupboards, drawers, or shelves and typically a flat top at waist height.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > sideboard > [noun]
dresser1352
dresser board1352
cupboardc1380
dressing board1380
dressing knife boarda1425
sideboard?c1663
buffet1718
abacus1785
credenza1834
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 103 In it a table was spread for about 12. persons, with a sid board..for that Table.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 350 At a stately side-board by the wine..in order stood Tall stripling youths rich clad. View more context for this quotation
1693 W. Congreve tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xi. 226 No side-boards then, with gilded Plate were dress'd.
1710 Tatler No. 205. ⁋1 The sumptuous Sideboard to an ingenuous Eye has often more the Air of an Altar than a Table.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 383 It would not be amiss to have some cold meat, and a bottle of wine upon a side-board.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers 261 He laughed till the glasses in the sideboard rang again.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 4 The butler..had been carving at the side-board during the conversation.
1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 26 Mahogany Inlaid Sideboard, bow front with tambour cupboard in centre.
1987 B. Freemantle Charlie Muffin San xxx. 273 There was a bottle of Margaux on the table..and another opened and breathing on a sideboard.
2010 R. Pilcher Long Way Home v. 20 In the long middle drawer in the sideboard, Claire found plates and the bone-handled knives and forks.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > sideboard > [noun] > contents of
sideboard1724
1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 83 He gave me the Table, or Side-board of Plate I mention'd above, with all things belonging to it, of massy Silver.
1756 Connoisseur No. 117. 99 I observed several gentlemen, who brought their sideboards of plate, to be melted down..into current specie.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. xi. 359 ‘I would as soon,’ answered Cecilia, ‘take with me the side-board of plate.’
1840 New Monthly Mag. Aug. 462 When..there was no plate except solid silver, a complete sideboard was so beyond the reach of small fortunes, that it was no disparagement to sport a service of Wedgewood.
1854 F. C. F. Demmler tr. E. Vehse Mem. Court Prussia iii. 34 The rich stock of silver plate—among which, a gorgeous silver sideboard, with a number of large silver and silver-gilt vessels.
1903 G. O. Trevelyan Amer. Revol. II. ii. ix. 344 His father pressed upon him a whole sideboard of plate.
2.
a. A board forming the side, or part of the side, of any structure.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > something at the side > specific
sideboard1463
sideline?a1560
sidebar1675
1463–4 in H. E. Salter Registrum Cancelarii Oxoniensis (1932) II. 129 (MED) Item, ii syde bordys of a bed with iiii fete.
1474 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 55 (MED) Sydebordis.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tessons d'un pressouër, the side-boords of a presse.
1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2108 After the Ore is landed,..'tis brought..and unloaded at the head of the Pass (i.e. 2 or 3 bottom-boards with 2 side-boards sloping-wise) in which the Ore slides down into the Coffer.
1704 tr. G. Merolla Voy. Congo i. in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. I. 695/1 The Marimba..consists of sixteen Calabashes orderly plac'd along the middle between two side-boards join'd together.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. vii. 175 The grander canoes..are ornamented with open work..; the side-boards..are embellished with tufts of white feathers.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 130 The side-board of a groove may be cracked.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2173/1 Sideboard,..a vertical board at the side of a work-bench,..for supporting one end of a piece of work.
1900 Engineering 31 Aug. 264/1 The sideboards at each side of the door are special features.
1980 M. G. Schmidt Growing Calif. Native Plants 32 Redwood side boards extend about two inches above the ground level.
2014 A. Leigh Fortune's Prince 216 She leaned over the high side boards that formed the walls of the tree house.
b. spec. Each of a set of removable boards added to the sides of a truck, trailer, wagon, etc., to raise the height and enable a greater load to be carried. Usually in plural.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > parts of > body > plank or rail > to increase capacity
cart-staff1297
thripple14..
rathe1459
summer1510
cart-ladder?1523
rail1530
rave1530
shelboard1569
wain-flakes1570
load-pina1642
shelvingsa1642
cop1679
float1686
lade1686
outrigger1794
shelvement1808
sideboard1814
heck1825
hay-rigging1855
floating rail1892
1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. I. 237 Side-boards being occasionally added,..for enlarging the cart, it is made to contain a greater load when necessary.
1832 Stamford Mercury 27 Jan. 2/5 2 narrow wheeled waggons..with raves and sideboards.
1840 C. Howard Farming at Ridgemont 131 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III The waggons..are well formed, with side-boards fixed on the top of the body.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 5 The piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards were unpinned.
1919 Oklahoma Rep. 56 433 He could have gotten off [the wagon] on the opposite side by climbing over the sideboard.
1996 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 25 Apr. b5 A 42-foot flatbed trailer with wood sideboards was reported stolen.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > stand-up
Medicis1799
stand-upc1836
stick-ups1850
sideboards1857
Medici collar1899
1852 Yankee Notions May 145 A bigger and sicklier moustache, perfumed soaplocks, standing shirt-collar, rising like two sideboards to fence in the face.]
1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 18 Side boards, shirt-collar. ‘Are you in mourning, Bill?’ ‘No, why?’ ‘Because you have got your side-boards up,’ alluding to shops having the shutters put up.
1875 ‘Uncle Bob’ Lett. to Children (ed. 3) 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.’
4. In plural. colloquial (originally U.S., now chiefly British). Sideburns.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > whiskers
whiskerc1600
whiskerage1858
sideboards1883
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers
side wing1811
mutton chop1851
Dundreary whiskers1859
mutton cutlet1860
Piccadilly weeper1866
burnside1875
Dundrearies1876
sideburn1876
sidebar whiskers1882
sideboards1883
weeper1894
slugger1898
ear guards1905
1883 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 7 Oct. Most of them are clean shaven, except a small moustache and neat side-boards.
1891 Printers' Ink 16 Dec. 740/1 The ‘Professor’ or ‘Doctor’..is invariably represented..as a middle-aged man, with tropically profuse sideboards or a forest of beard.
1907 Daily 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.
1961 H. S. Turner Something Extraordinary i. 9 The boys are dressed in the Teddy style, with tight trousers and sideboards.
2012 Sunday Express (Nexis) 4 Nov. I watch so much period drama now, I may be encouraged to grow my own sideboards.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 1b), as sideboard cloth, sideboard drawer, sideboard ornament, etc.
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1646 in J. S. Moore Clifton & Westbury Probate Inventories (1981) 86 In the lower chamber..one carpite, one quishen and a sidbord clathe.
c1716 in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics of 1715 (1889) 105 Sideboard cloaths 6.
1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 19 Oct. 3/2 A handsome assortment of newest fashion'd side board plate.
1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 168 You bring up your girls as if they were meant for sideboard ornaments.
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 229 For side-board decoration, the Wiederkom..drinking-cups..have always been popular.
1901 Scribner's Mag. Mar. 343/1 My precious cut-glass and silver brandy-flask, ruthlessly torn from a respectable home in our sideboard cupboard.
1959 T. Courtenay Let. 22 Mar. in Dear Tom (2001) 176 If you open the sideboard door you will find a box of chocolates.
2008 P. Samarasan Evening is Whole Day 60 Amma set the table with..the forks and spoons she'd found in the sideboard drawer.
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sideboard man n. now historical and rare a person, esp. a man, whose job is to serve, carve, etc., at a side table.
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1775 A. Mackrabie Let. 24 Feb. in Francis Lett. (1901) I. 227 2 Sideboard Men wait at Table.
1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 38 42 The art of carving has been written upon by Jacques Vontet... Montague mentions the side-board-man of Cardinal Caraffi.
1999 P. R. Duis Saloon vi. 187 By 1915 at least seven Loop saloons had replaced the sideboard man with ‘free lunch machines’.
sideboard table n. †(a) a dining table placed at the side of a room; = sense 1a (obsolete); (b) a sideboard without drawers or cupboards (now chiefly historical).
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1679 in tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer Pref. sig. A b They saw him every day..Dine at a Side-board Table by himself.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 19 Mar. (1981) II. 333 The side board table..was equally unfit for my purpose.
1801 Times 23 Sept. 4/2 (advt.) A capital set of mahogany dining tables, a ditto sideboard table with plate rail, [etc.].
1916 House Beautiful Dec. 25/1 Two console or sideboard tables on either side of a doorway or fireplace are used instead of a sideboard of the more usual type.
2011 P. M. Kenny & M. K. Brown Duncan Phyfe 236/1 During the eighteenth century, a distinct variant of the pier table, the sideboard table, emerged.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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