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Cupboard
The term cupboard was originally used to describe an open-shelved side table for displaying dishware, more specifically plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them. The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture.
The word cupboard is also frequently used in British English to denote what North Americans would call a closet.
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Cabinet (noun)
A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
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Cabinet (noun)
A cupboard.
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Cabinet (noun)
The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game.
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Cabinet (noun)
A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞” by 5½”.
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Cabinet (noun)
A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
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Cabinet (noun)
In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
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Cabinet (noun)
A small chamber or private room.
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Cabinet (noun)
(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
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Cabinet (noun)
Milkshake.
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Cabinet (noun)
A hut; a cottage; a small house.
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Cupboard (noun)
A used to buffet.
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Cupboard (noun)
Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate.
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Cupboard (noun)
A storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.
“Put the cups back into the cupboard.”
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Cupboard (noun)
Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food.
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Cupboard (verb)
To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. from 16th century.