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credenze

credenze is the plural of credenza.

Meaning of credenza

Noun

credenza (plural credenzas or credenze)

  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.1918, William M[acdougal] Odom, A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 202
  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.2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

Questions about credenze

What is credenze the plural of?
Credenze is the plural of credenza.

Words near credenze in the dictionary

  1. credentialling
  2. credentials
  3. credently
  4. credenza
  5. credenzas
  6. credenze
  7. Credeur
  8. Credeurs
  9. credibilities
  10. credibility
  11. credibility gap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: credenze (page history and authors); credenza (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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