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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

... unworthy. It wasn't in Tom Bingle to be mean, not even to his worst enemy. Notwithstanding the fact that the young man had just taken unto himself a wife, and was as poor as a church-mouse, the door and the cupboard in his modest little flat were opened cheerfully to the delinquent Uncle Joe, and be it said to the latter's discredit and shame—he proceeded to impose upon the generosity of his nephew in a manner that should have earned him a booting into the street. But ...

— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

... my tiny cupboard—the merest cupboard! Follow me." They went through several doors and up several small staircases till they reached a small apartment furnished in old blue damask, heavily fringed with ...

— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes

... Baisemeaux, and he took out of a cupboard a large register. Aramis followed him most anxiously with his eyes, and Baisemeaux returned, placed the register upon the table, and turned over the leaves for a minute, and ...

— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... these smaller chambers was he any more successful than in the bedroom itself. Finally he came to the bath, which was enclosed in a panelled casing of polished wood, after the manner of baths. Some baths have a cupboard beneath the taps, with a door at the side, but this one appeared to have none. He tapped the panels, but not a single one of them gave forth that 'curious hollow sound' which usually betokens a secret place. Idly he turned the cold-tap of the bath, and the water began ...

— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett

... room; in the rear wall a door; in the corner on the left a bed, on the right a cupboard. In the left wall a window, and beside the window a table. Near the table a chair; near the right wall a desk and a wooden stool. Beside the bed a guitar; on the table and ...

— Plays • Alexander Ostrovsky

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