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cylinder front

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noun

Furniture.

  1. a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.

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The harpsichord boxed up front gave way to the cylinder front, invented by Henry Pape, a clever German pianoforte-maker who bad settled in Paris.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

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