word of the day: credenza

The word of the day is credenza:

1. Also, credence. a sideboard or buffet, especially one without legs.

2. a closed cabinet for papers, office supplies, etc., often of desk height and matching the other furniture in an executive's office.

3. Ecclesiastical, credence (def 3).

< Italian < Medieval Latin crēdentia (in ecclesiastical usage) a sideboard for holding sacramental vessels (dictionary.com)

"Incognito: a succession of kings including INCOGNITO I, who didn't like his officially suppressed given name; INCOGNITO V, a devotee of Flan O'Brien and thus a bicycle fetishist; and INCOGNITO VIII, noted for such scandals as the Cashmere Crisis and the case of the lapsed credenza....

"'Take these handcuffs off my wrists - and that credenza off my chest!' yawped Flip, thrashing about on the barroom floor in a pool of viscous words....

"'That credenza coulda knocked me senseless!' bawled Flip, crawling anfractuously to the saloon door for a double shot of prairie air and a possible getaway car....

"History may regard the Cashmere Crisis as the nadir of the entire Incognito succession, but the lapsed credenza hardly redounded to the credit of the family, either, even if it did end up at the Pink Antlers Saloon in a different story and century altogether, long after the king and his minions were last seen on the shores of Lake Quisisana."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative