"Miller, Jeffrey" wrote:
> At the neighborhood hardware store last night, getting new glass, the
> shopkeeper asked why I needed 3 panes of glass, and as I told him the
> story, he nodded and said that 2 other homes in my neighborhood had
> received similar treatment (funny, the cops never mentioned a string of
> these incidents..) I walked over and chatted with the other households,
> introduced myself, etc. One woman had some china in.. well, whatever
> those special cabinets you china in are called.. broken by the shot;
Generally, I've heard them called "china cabinets". :) That's how I
refer to the one in my house, and that's how my mother refers to the one
in her house that is a closed cabinet on the bottom and then a case with
glass doors on the top. (She has another cabinet in her dining room which
is *also* used to store china, but it's not "the china cabinet", it's "the
wardrobe" because that's what it was *originally* shortly after the wood
pieces were fitted together with pegs sometime in the 19th century.
Shelves were nailed in at a later date.)
Furniture store people refer to them in some other manner when it comes
down to ordering the darn thing, but if you go in and ask to look at china
cabinets, they'll point you in the right direction. ("Hutch" comes to
mind, but that might be just the top part or just the bottom part. And it
doesn't sound as nice as "china cabinet".)
Julia
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