fall front

She must have twisted around somehow, because she fell front first rather than on her back.

The fall front desk can be considered the cousin of the Secretary desk.

This one has a Japanese lacquer panel showing a basket of flowers on its fall front.

The fall front usually settles at a slight angle once it is open, in order to give a slanted work surface to the user.

The Wooton desk is a variation of the fall front desk.

Basically, the Plantation desk is a Fall front desk with a deeper stand or bottom part.

When the top and bottom chests are permanently attached or built as one piece there is a desk form called a Fall front desk.

They reined up along the fallen front line, whereupon many of the knights dismounted and began moving quickly among their dead comrades.

By the end of the 16th century, the codpiece had also been incorporated into breeches which featured a fly or fall front opening.

It has a cupboard on top, over a fall front that opens to become a desk, revealing open shelves and compartments and five small drawers.

Unlike the secretary desk, the fall front desk's desktop panel is in a perfectly vertical position when in its closed position.

It is supposed that the Fall front desk form gradually evolved from the Desk on a chest towards the end of the Renaissance.

A bargueño desk is a form of portable desk, resembling the top half of a fall front desk.

The middle section of each cabinet is a fully lacquered fall front desk that opens to reveal a writing surface, lacquered pigeonholes and small drawers.

Some plantation desks have two panel doors instead of a fall front and the ledge is hence much deeper since it serves as the main desktop surface.

The fall front desk or "secrétaire à abattant", and the slant top desk are also related.

The extra space or ledge of the bottom part of the desk serves as a support for the fall front, thus eliminating the need for retractable supports.

Fall front breeches, breeches with a panel or flap covering the front opening and fastened up with buttons at either corner.

In short, the secretaire en portefeuille is much like a Fall front desk which would have been reduced in depth to a bare minimum.

The fall front desk is also called a drop front desk or drop-front desk, and sometimes also a drop lid desk.

Like them, and unlike the secretary desk or the fall front desk, it can be closed up without disturbing too much the paperwork and various documents and implements left on the main desktop surface.

Like the Fall front desk and the Secretary desk the secretaire en portefeuille's desktop lifts up to cover internal areas and must thus be cleared of all work before closing up.

The lights come up on a chorus of babbling 17th-century French swells who are figuratively guillotined by a progression of elegant, falling front curtains, each more disfigured than the last by blotted, calligraphic graffiti.

Like a normal fall front desk the work surface must be cleared of all materials in order to raise it in a vertical position and thus close off the small drawers and pigeonholes set in front of the user.

Thus, the fall front desk is identical in shape to a Bargueno desk which would have been placed on a stand of drawers, or more precisely to the form known as Desk on a chest or as "chest-on chest".