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credenza

noun
/kɹəˈdɛnzə/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian credenza. Doublet of credence.

  1. borrowed from credenza

Definitions

  1. A sideboard or buffet.

    • Two credenze dating about the middle of the century, shown in Figures 135 and 136, illustrate the stage of excessive ornamentation of furniture reached about this time.
    • The furniture consists of many fine small and large cabinets, credenze and tables, all especially alluring and of unusual types not very frequently found today; […]
    • A recessed top story containing a cupboard was added to many credenze in the 16th cent. and this was usual in subsequent periods.

  2. A horizontal filing cabinet, typically placed behind a desk.

    • I wandered over to his record collection, past his mantel displaying mid-century lighters, past his closet filled with trench coats and shoehorns, past his credenza stacked with pamphlets.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at credenza. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01credenza02desk03clerical04clerks05clerk06accounts07account08credits09credit10credence

A definitional loop anchored at credenza. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at credenza

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA