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credenza
A credenza is a〔''Credenza'' is in the March 2014 online update of the ''OED'' as "A sideboard, free-standing cupboard, or storage chest, orig. Italian or of Italian style", expanding the 1989 print edition's "A sideboard". It also appears in ''OED'' as ''Credence'', as well as in John Gloag, ''A Short Dictionary of Furniture'' (London, 1977), where ''Credence'' is described as "a small side-table for vessels, used as a serving table", noting 16th-century usage and quoting John Britton, ''A Dictionary of the Art and Archaeology of the Middle Ages'' 1838: "a shelf-like projection placed across a piscina, or within a niche as a place for sacred vessels used at mass; also a buffet or sideboard for plate".〕 dining room sideboard cupboard, particularly one where a central cupboard is flanked by quadrant glass display cabinets,〔( Merriam-Webster Online: ''Credenza'': "a sideboard, buffet, or bookcase patterned after a Renaissance CREDENCE; especially: one without legs" ).〕 and usually made of burnished and polished wood and decorated with marquetry.〔The Parisian late 18th-century ''commode à vantaux'' was soon imitated in London and in the early 19th century in the United States.〕 The top would often be made of marble, or another decorative liquid- and heat-resistant stone. The term ''credenza'' became very fashionable in the US during the second half of the 19th century.
In modern times, a credenza is more often a type of sideboard used in the home or restaurant. In dining rooms, it is typically made from wood and used as a platform to serve buffet meals. In restaurant kitchens, made from stainless steel, it provides a side surface and storage cupboards.
==Etymology==
Originally in Italian the name meant ''belief''. In the 16th century the act of ''credenza'' was the tasting of food and drinks by a servant for a lord or other important person (such as the pope or a cardinal) in order to test for poison. The name may have passed then to the room where the act took place, then to the furniture.〔(Definition at Dizionario Etimologico Online )〕
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