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noun

Cabinet n.

1.

A hut; a cottage; a small house. (Obs.) "Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet."

2.

A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

3.

A private room in which consultations are held. "Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet."

4.

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. Note: In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general, and the Attorney-general.

5.

(a)

A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:

(b)

A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See etagere.

6.

Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.

Cabinet council.

(a)

Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title).

(b)

A meeting of the cabinet.

Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council.

Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite.

Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

verb

Cabinet v. i. (past & past part. cabineted; pres. part. cabineting) To inclose (R.)

adjective

Cabinet adj. Suitable for a cabinet; small. "He (Varnhagen von Ense) is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe."

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Etymology of 'Cabinet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cabinet" Quotes from Famous Books

... furniture at Combe Manor, and make Uncle Geoff turn out all these ugly things? We might have our pretty carpet from the drawing-room, and the curtains, and mother's couch, and some of the easy-chairs, and the dear little carved cabinet with our purple china; it need not all be sold when we want it ...

— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... the supposed bottom flew up, showing a box below. The little stand was really more of a cabinet than a table, though it had a flat top and rolled easily on its castors. In the box thus opened ...

— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... monk as she spoke, and, opening a cabinet, brought forth the five frames of work, completed long before. Her step was firm, but her hand trembled as she produced the last one; and, when the feelings of the other sisters gushed forth at sight of it, her pent-up tears made way, and she ...

— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... affairs. But he felt that it was his duty to answer so spontaneous and general a call from his fellow citizens, and in the office of chief executive he showed the same firm and wise spirit that had distinguished him as commander of the army. His Cabinet contained the most famous and brilliant men of the day, and the people throughout the country felt themselves safe with such a president at ...

— A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. • Clayton Edwards

... with Russia. We say difficult, because the iron-bound exclusiveness and isolation of the commercial, as well as of the political, system of St Petersburg, is sufficiently notorious; and it must have required no small exercise of sagacity and address to overcome the known disinclination of that Cabinet to any relaxation of the restrictive policy which, as the Autocrat lately observed to a distinguished personage, "had been handed down to him from his ancestors, and was found to work well for the interests of his empire." The peculiar merits of this treaty are as little understood, however, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

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