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noun

Cupboard n.

A board or shelf for cups and dishes. (Obs.)

A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." (Colloq.)

To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. (Colloq.) "My stomach cries cupboard."

verb

Cupboard v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Cupboard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cupboard" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Hibiscus, about six feet in length, and half as many inches in diameter, with a small, bit of wood not more than a foot long, and scarcely an inch wide, is as invariably to be met with in every house in Typee as a box of lucifer matches in the corner of a kitchen cupboard at home. ...

— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville

... the cupboard. But I'm not going." He said it firmly, but the next instant he asked, "Did Jimpson press ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... found an iron cash-box in a cupboard and succeeded in forcing it with a screw-driver. It contained a few papers, among which were one or two relating to the purchase of the quarter-section, and Wandle put these in his pocket. The others he threw into the cupboard—Jernyngham's carelessness was well known—and then hastily ...

— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss

... able to receive so beneficent a visitor, and was now mistress of a small salon with a balcony and a rickety flower-stand—to say nothing of a view of many roofs and chimneys—a very uneven waxed floor, an empire clock, an armoire a glace, highly convenient for Miriam's posturings, and several cupboard doors covered over, allowing for treacherous gaps, with the faded magenta paper of the wall. The thing had been easily done, for Sherringham had said: "Oh we must have a sitting-room for our studies, you know, and I'll ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... trouble yourself beyond No. 1," returned the major with dry significance. Nevertheless, he opened a rude cupboard in the corner and brought out a rich silver-mounted cut-glass drinking-flask, which he ...

— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

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