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A piece of furniture whose only job is to make drinking look like a lifestyle.
means A small wheeled or stationary stand, usually with shelves, used to store and display bottles, glasses, and bar tools in a home.
from Furniture history more than word history: the term simply joins 'bar' (the drinking counter, itself from the wooden rail that once separated tavern-keepers from customers) with 'cart' (a wheeled conveyance, from Old Norse 'kartr'). The bar cart as an object took off in the early-to-mid 20th century, when home entertaining and cocktail culture made it fashionable to wheel the liquor to the party rather than make the party come to it.
- origin
- Tea trolleys repurposed after prohibition ended
- golden rule
- Always has more bottles than guests
- status signal
- Vintage decanters imply taste, not alcoholism
- real use
- Mostly displays things nobody ever pours